Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature requests for 2008.0

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>]

Nelson Batalha wrote:
>  > This sounds like a great idea. What about the minimal install CD 
> though? Last
>  > I checked the minimal install image wouldn't boot off a USB flash drive
>  > unless you were using the 2006.0 image. I know liveUSB isn't 
> "officially"
>  > supported but if someone got the free time to get the minimal images 
> to boot
>  > from USB flash, I know it would make a lot of people happy.
>  >
>  > --Dan Dexter
> 
> 
> This means they will become supported. One however could release a tar 
> just for the liveusb but it just takes space in reps, and it's necessary 
> to have a script in both solutions so..
> 
> I haven't tried myself, someone knows what's different with these cd's?

The problem was the same with both the minimal and the LiveCD. In 2006.1, 
genkernel was using -t iso9660 to mount the "CD root". In 2007.0, vfat (or maybe 
it was the NLS stuff) was built as a module in the kernel and that module wasn't 
available in the initramfs. Neither of these should be the case for 2008.0.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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