On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> > wrote: >> >> On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> >> ... >> >> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to >> boot a relatively old machine with it. >> >> Here is where it stops >> >> ... >> >> Have you tried SystemRescueCD? >> http://www.sysresccd.org/Download > > Thanks; never tried; always used the gentoo minimal >> >> Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot process it >> says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the minimal iso not Live >> in the past? >> >> I think this may depend upon your definition of a "LiveCD". To me it is an >> operating system which boots from CD & which requires no hard-drive. >> Stroller. > > > Right. I meant the Live version that comes with a X Window login manager, > etc. > > Thanks, > > -- > Valmor >
One note about sysresccd, while I do nearly all of my installs from it (working from a likely out of date copy, so unsure how much this still applies) anymore, I've run across a small issue between its use of zsh and emerging some packages. Most recently, it bit me while getting one of the dependencies to nfs-progs built so my new system would be able to get to my portage tree share on its own after the reboot. This bug (closed as RESOLVED - INVALID, since it's not actually a bug with Gentoo in the eyes of the Devs): http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271942 details it further and gives a couple options on fixing it, should you run into it at all. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
