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 1JE8Mu-0007Im-Ta for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:19:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10307E0AFE; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA38E0AD2 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so3215846wah.10 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=x+FJ8jEI6TIrmOrxC0vZHaO6KBb6opxkxIfxjykMn0g=; b=wPyPyYNl7IAsemZybi1kO7hYrpLycJqGoJm665qO5xhWzOg8MljGGAeZud4xs+AZOXOV7noCQaej4ObXn4rxygKE/xX1PUC4a/v1XGQt4vkb61Ll7z69zxUzVQbXUcL6oGUgJcxfr0YklsBTI7u2auWJrusx5+XsXoNg6dUx6rY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=iXsS0dusBYnQ+sPkfokEwz68CR5Uv32QUJ+Q379SC+27/+xHM2imF6QcjadJh6b9b3Ok+YclAHIdTRKboszlEyVxizkfXO7I9+UYvs5ubbU2de2PvCbYnRqrtT4ZcWRjC+e4Jyp7VHtqwP1aAMpoHp95dis3mIzZVoX+42jZl14= Received: by 10.142.131.18 with SMTP id e18mr2212941wfd.207.1200251738194; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.203.14 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0801131115h61d8d749h2dff04917e2b1624@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:15:38 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead? In-Reply-To: <1200247390.10387.12.camel@localhost> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080111082729.GA12107@localhost> <20080111091237.GB12107@localhost> <1343558.gq7T5pozvP@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> <4789FECF.3020503@gmail.com> <20080113141730.039de79f@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <1338052.pDIsalx77d@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de> <20080113162915.1365cb20@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <20080113164650.GA8747@sin.khk.be> <1200247390.10387.12.camel@localhost> X-Archives-Salt: 77ad73db-1d1d-4637-99f6-6432d107ad67 X-Archives-Hash: 6f37d18e421bf3e783a31533afad3319 On Jan 13, 2008 10:03 AM, Pongracz Istvan wrote= : > 2008. 01. 13, vas=E1rnap keltez=E9ssel 17.46-kor Ken Gypen ezt =EDrta: > ........ > > I agree that Gentoo shouldn't become an Ubuntu like distro, but the > > minimal install cd is, at least for me, a requirement. > > > ........... > > Regards, > > > > Ken > > > > After reading lot of posts regarding install cd, I decided, I will > create livecd for install purposes, with: > - handbook > - fresh stage3 for i686 > - portage snapshot > > I will try to keep it up-to-date. > > Anyway, I'm not a dev member, just a user with motivation to do this. > Are anybody interesting in this kind of release? > > Cheers, Istv=E1n > Hi, As a stupid user type, but one who does care about Gentoo and would like Gentoo to be strong and healthy, I'd certainly be interested in a very minimal install CD. I think it's good marketing that someone who wishes to use Gentoo can download something that writes Gentoo on his screen while he does the installation. All I personally want out of an install CD is something that: 1) Boots new hardware well enough to do the install. The current LiveCD doesn't boot a P5E motherboard so I couldn't do the install on that machine using it. 2) Has networking turned on for whatever my NIC is and makes it easy to start sshd. At that point I'll sit on another machine and copy/paste install commands to do a Stage 3 install. I wouldn't use a tarball on this CD. I'd go to the net to get the latest and greatest. It just needs a good kernel and networking support. After that it's up to me. This install CD, should you do it and I hope you do, should be focused at supporting new motherboards as soon as possible to ensure I can always install Gentoo on the newest machines. As far as I'm concerned, and this is just me the dumb user type, it doesn't need X, frame buffers, sound or *anything* fancy. Just boot to a text console and let me do my work. That would be perfect. Thanks for listening. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list