Re: [gentoo-user] First Mail to this list: Different isos ?

[Rumen Yotov <rumen@qrypto.org>]

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Hi,
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:38 +0100, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> From: Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Mail to this list: Different isos ?
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:47:38 -0200
> 
> > On 2/10/06, Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >  this is my frist mail to this list.
> > >
> > >  I am on the way to install Gentoo-Linux onto my HD...but I don't
> > >  know what iso image to use. My platform is x86-based, therefore
> > >  I will use one of the *x86*.iso images.
> > >
> > >  But there is a *2005.1*iso and a *2005.1-ri*iso. Right from the name,
> > >  I would choose the *r1* image. But it is very much smaller then the
> > >  other one.
> > 
> > Why not simply use the "current" link?
> 
>   I would have done this already...if the image size would have been
>   more similiar...
> 
The latest installer ISO's are smaller (IMHO) because they contain only
stage3 tarballs (no stage-1 & 2 anymore). Haven't checked though.
> > I don't know exactly why it is smaller, but you should have no
> > problems with it... As the team said, its just a media refresh with a
> > few bug fixes.
> > 
> > >
> > >  So...is this *r1* image an update, a fix, another kind of Gentoo...?
> > 
> > A quick google search returned:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/news/20051121-release-2005.1-r1.xml
...SKIP...
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
HTH.Rumen

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