From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESf5n-0003gZ-NU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:24:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9KIMHqx017261; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:22:17 GMT Received: from creativecommunications.com (host124-162.rancor.birch.net [65.17.124.162]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9KIMHpo004419 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:22:17 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.145] (unknown [192.168.1.145]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62468229C018 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:25:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4357DFE3.9030403@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:20:19 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-installer@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later? References: <20051020181754.BB252203FE@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20051020181754.BB252203FE@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 30f36dc1-3a40-4a91-8433-41f57f8eb3cd X-Archives-Hash: 82a74e5ef566058cd7438ebe7c7dd781 John Walsh wrote: > But I like the non-X liveCD (not the minimal, the Universal), everybody has X > livecd's and the simplicity and power of the current livecd is unmatched. > Is there no way of keeping the same Universal LiveCD as is now for those users that > prefer it? I mean, when a system is down, there is no need to start X and have open-office and > x-chat, xine, mplayer, xmms, etc on the CD, but as many tools as possible, like it is now to get it back up. The universal basically is the minimal with some extras: universal == minimal + stages + portage snapshot You can easily bypass X on the X-LiveCD by passing 'nox' on the kernel commandline. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-installer@gentoo.org mailing list