From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JDMnf-0000M2-Om for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:32:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F1CCE0B53; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost01.isp.att.net (fmailhost01.isp.att.net [207.115.11.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4481E0B50 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (adsl-065-005-209-106.sip.msy.bellsouth.net[65.5.209.106]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc01) with ESMTP id <20080111163106H0100n58fve>; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:07 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [65.5.209.106] Message-ID: <47879AA7.1080508@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:34:47 -0600 From: Eddie Mihalow Jr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead? References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <6142e6140801110037p7d5167c5y619b318ba1bf652e@mail.gmail.com> <1200041896.10339.13.camel@localhost> <20080111091237.GB12107@localhost> <1343558.gq7T5pozvP@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> <20080111071549.4677caa8@osage.osagesoftware.com> <47876E63.3010009@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7a394248-e5ea-4ec3-b391-86267db8d8b1 X-Archives-Hash: 721292f98d16a527a6e6bfc57a0d9c24 Galevsky wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Eddie Mihalow Jr 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. -- Edward A Mihalow Jr Gentoo! Linux Mudbug Computers and Networks Registered Linux User#225662 New Orleans,LA -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list