From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7277 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Aug 2003 04:42:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 28479 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 04:42:24 -0000 References: <20030804042914.85495.qmail@web42006.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030804042914.85495.qmail@web42006.mail.yahoo.com> From: iggy@gentoo.org To: "KH c" , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 23:50:53 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Just a suggestion X-Archives-Salt: aa52eed5-5f47-4d3b-9597-f364c85411ae X-Archives-Hash: 47541748b95284d4957c551309d4f1d4 [big5] KH c writes: > Hello developers, > > I have an idea concerning Gentoo Live Distro. As a > Live Distro, it is essential that it is trimmed, > leaving the biggest space available for application. > However, in order to trim it we certainly can NOT > include drivers of ALL kind of hardwares imaginable, > thereby it render some Gentoo user with no driver > included in the distro. My suggestion is that possible > to change its installation seqence so when it discover > that the hardware drivers is NOT avilable, it will > AUTOMATICALLY download it from a certain website and > install it all by itself. So as long as the user can > connect to the internet(So we should MAXMIZE the LAN > driver support), his/her basic i/o device supported; > s/he can use all his/her hardware under Gentoo. It > will save all the trouble for new Gentoo user to > search all over the internet. > What do you think? So, you want to replace compiled drivers with some software, and a huge database of all the hardware in the world, along with wher to download it from, etc. etc., and hope that nobody decides to move stuff on their servers, becasue then everybody's live cd's are worthless. Not that I'm saying your idea is without merit, but you certainly would have to find a way to make it seamless. You can't Joe Dialup downloading 26 megs of tarball just so he can get his mouse working. --Brian Jackson (iggy) > > Regards, > Euler Cheung > Project Manager > LinuxLiveCD.com -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list