Cory Visi wrote: > In addition, I don't see a huge drawback to using other distro's LiveCDs.
I tried to install a system with a marvell pata drive, no livecd I know of managed to run because they couldn't find the cdrom. the system was to be installed using debian and had windows installed, the debian.exe got really handy (btw what about having one for gentoo or a generic one?) > Some distros specialize in making a LiveCD do everything possible, like > Knoppix. This group isn't maintaining a portage tree, they are just making > their LiveCD awesome. Why not piggyback on their efforts (our users are > doing it anyway)? That way we can focus our resources on making portage > great, which is Gentoo's true strength. well gentoo livecd usually run on many more systems, our infrastructure let us have fresher stuff than others. a 2007.0 snapshot would have worked out of box. > > With Gentoo, once you are up and running, releases become very > unimportant. What do you think? > that first you have to be up and running... so release early & often minimal livecd please =P lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
