[gentoo-user] Installation questions

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Hello,

I have read that the LiveCD is dead, no mas, ka_put_ski.


So I wondering when the installation docs (gentoo handbook)
will be modified for Chapter 2: Choosing the Right
Installation medium?

Many of the other installation methods (alternative to the  G
Handbook) also require CDs, stages and snapshots.
No 2009 profile yet?

I have seen this page as a recommended (on this list) method
to install Gentoo: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Maybe a quick list of instructions how to use it to
install gentoo? Maybe a boot-floppy and then get
everything from a usb stick< for older i586/P1 systems?
Many of the older machines I install gentoo on, do 
not support usb booting directly? 

Hell, for that matter, I do not know what to tell somebody
new to Gentoo, to use to install on a computer now-a-days?


Currently, I hack my way through using 2005 and 2006
minimal CDs until I find a combo of files/drivers that
work for an old x86 arch (K6 and such too).


I'd like to learn how other folks are performing Gentoo installations
these days. I just used a 2007 minimal cd without incidence, but
that seems to fading as a viable offering. I never had any luck
with 2008* cds.  


Maybe a list of really simple steps on a usb stick? or a home-made
catalyst CD? Particularly for old 586 and pentium 1 machines. It 
seems every install on an old x86 arch is a "random walk" to
get to a minimal working machine.... They do make excellent 
firewall and DNS servers.