Hi! On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Duncan wrote: > Samuli Suominen posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:32:22 +0200 as excerpted: > > > imho we should contact the sysrescuecd developers and suggest more close > > cooperation, such that it could be called official install media in > > gentoo-terms > > I've wondered for years why gentoo invests all that effort into creating > its own install media, when there's many dedicated projects out there > whose whole purpose is live install/rescue media. It has always seemed > to me that we'd be better off simply using one of them and saving the > effort for something closer to our core competency/mission.
SysRescueCD does not exist for the fringe architectures. When we first built the install media, the only alternative that was somewhat reliable was Knoppix -- which in turn had its own problems during the x86/amd64 days. So we built our own. I'll say it again: if we don't make install media anymore and tell people to use SRCD instead, we will lose installation support for at least alpha, ppc/64, hppa and ia64. As for sparc, mips and arm, there _might_ be alternatives, but I'm not aware of them. Regards, Tobias -- "Brain, konban wa nani o shimashitai?" "Your Japanese is terrible, Pinky."
