Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

[Eddie Mihalow Jr <eamjr56@bellsouth.net>]

Galevsky wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Eddie Mihalow Jr <eamjr56@bellsouth.net> wrote
>> You are missing the point of Gentoo then. We are NOT a binary distro (to
>> repeat ad nauseum). If you want that kind of install, please change
>> distros. I do find these other methods of install to be interesting though.
>> Has anyone on this list ever used a PXE boot image to install?
>>
> 
> With just sources, you can't do anything. Even when you built your LFS
> you have to download first you toolchain as binaries, before
> re-compilation. To compile a compiler..... you need a compiler. Good.
> But what is the problem ? No issue here. You just know that without a
> working PC and toolchain binaries, there is nothing to do.
> 
> Should we consider that LFS is not a true custom-made system and loads
> the dice ? Of course not, since in the end, you get the expected
> result.
> 
> Same thing here. You are telling me that my not-bootable linux system
> -possibly out of any network- won't face any issue since there is a
> repository containing Gentoo sources somewhere and that PXE are not
> for dogs. Okay... tel me how to install Gentoo in that case. On the
> contrary, I think installCD is a response to an existing need, and it
> worth bringing solutions to existing needs.
> 
> Gentoo is not for me since I can't boot on PXE ? I don't want to give
> one cent to each Gentoo user that can't boot on PXE but needs an
> installCD/liveCD first.
> 
> Gal'
I think you are talking to the wrong person in your reply. I was talking 
to the fellow who used the live install cd
and was comparing it to Mandrake/Mandriva, so your answer is off point.
Also if you use Acronis and a image server you can have an image from a 
pre-built machine.
I was asking more the sys admins in the group about how they deloyed 
onto new machines.
Please take your panties out of that knot.

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Edward A Mihalow Jr
Gentoo! Linux
Mudbug Computers and Networks
Registered Linux User#225662
New Orleans,LA
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