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 1JDUCi-0004AW-IA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:26:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FF9AE0AFA; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost06.isp.att.net (fmailhost06.isp.att.net [204.127.217.106]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CBDAE0AA8 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.79.243.49] (host-216-79-243-49.jan.bellsouth.net[216.79.243.49]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc06) with ESMTP id <20080112002555H0600cujdse>; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:25:55 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.79.243.49] Message-ID: <47880912.3050402@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:25:54 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071205 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 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: <200801111038.08071.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <4787432B.1050902@smash-net.org> <1305130.335MG8fpnU@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> <4787EA2A.5030500@gmail.com> <4787EF3D.9020505@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4787EF3D.9020505@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2da9ec50-fe9d-42f2-8b5b-c7735d75d23c X-Archives-Hash: a431553992734a4c277291f071975754 Qian Qiao wrote: > < SNIP > > > I myself have 3 machines, a Athlon64X2, a Core2 Duo and a Pentium III, > I've used Gentoo minimal, Knoppix and Knoppix64 CDs during my > installation on these 3 machines and I haven't encounter any problem > using any of them, and that's why I said earlier in the thread that > LiveCDs really doesn't matter, as long as you can boot, fdisk, mount, > chroot, emerge, you are fine :) > > I hope I've provided you with some useful information. > > -- Joe > > Of course a more recent one is handy when in my situation. I have dial-up, a sucky AT&T dial-up at that. I try to install from the packages on the CD then upgrade later. That's the only benefit that I would see from more recent releases. Of course, you still end up downloading it all anyway. ;-) I just like the Knoppix thing myself. It "seems" faster to me. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list