Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New install isos needed

[Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org>]

Hi! 

On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Duncan wrote:
> Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted:
> 
> > imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close
> > cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in
> > gentoo-terms
> 
> I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating 
> its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there 
> whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media.  It has always seemed 
> to me that we'd be better off simply using one of them and saving the 
> effort for something closer to our core competency/mission.

SysRescueCD does not exist for the fringe architectures. When we
first built the install media, the only alternative that was
somewhat reliable was Knoppix -- which in turn had its own
problems during the x86/amd64 days.  So we built our own.

I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and
tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation
support for at least alpha, ppc/64, hppa and ia64. As for sparc,
mips and arm, there _might_ be alternatives, but I'm not aware of
them. 

Regards,
Tobias


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