if you will be downloading everything from the net size wouldn't matter just use the minimal cd if you want it's just a working environment to use to extract the basic files then chroot i once did it from an already installed distro.. and even from windows (read the archives the topic was still on last week) so the medium wouldn't matter if you're online..
On 2/10/06, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:38 +0100, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > From: Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Mail to this list: Different isos ? > > Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:47:38 -0200 > > > > > On 2/10/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > this is my frist mail to this list. > > > > > > > > I am on the way to install Gentoo-Linux onto my HD...but I don't > > > > know what iso image to use. My platform is x86-based, therefore > > > > I will use one of the *x86*.iso images. > > > > > > > > But there is a *2005.1*iso and a *2005.1-ri*iso. Right from the name, > > > > I would choose the *r1* image. But it is very much smaller then the > > > > other one. > > > > > > Why not simply use the "current" link? > > > > I would have done this already...if the image size would have been > > more similiar... > > > The latest installer ISO's are smaller (IMHO) because they contain only > stage3 tarballs (no stage-1 & 2 anymore). Haven't checked though. > > > I don't know exactly why it is smaller, but you should have no > > > problems with it... As the team said, its just a media refresh with a > > > few bug fixes. > > > > > > > > > > > So...is this *r1* image an update, a fix, another kind of Gentoo...? > > > > > > A quick google search returned: > > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/20051121-release-2005.1-r1.xml > ...SKIP... > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > HTH.Rumen > > > -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
