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From: "Preston Cody" <codeman@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users
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> I can understand chris's position. but it would be nice if he would
> consider the development of a script for the "livecd" that could
> extract the stage4 on it and include documentation in the handbook on
> how to do it.
being done for next release. i'm assuming you meant stage3 here.
> because as is the installers don't allow for enough flexibility.
on the contrary, most of our problems in the installer come from
offering too much flexibility.
I personally would like to know who decided to put bottom
> and I think top partition size limits in the installer. the limits
> should have been dictated by the filesystem limits themselves.
partition limits are decided by the size of the drive and the other
partitions on it.
> another option might be a "skip section" of the
> installer." that way we can on do the stage4 part, and forget the rest
> if we want. would any of this be such a hard and impossible thing for
> releng to do and support?
this support already exists. the installer has modes for stage4 and
chroot installations.
-Codeman
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