On 11/08/2011 10:51 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 07:04:54 -0600 >> William Immendorf<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> (Bruce, you may want to add:) >>> "The LiveCDs of these distributions work well as a base system too." >> >> As others have said, they may need some tweaking (/bin/sh => bash, >> gawk, etc) > > That's true. Also they are somewhat more difficult to use. The > binaries take a long time to load off the dvd/cd and you have to repeat > any configuration changes upon reboot. > > I think it better to not suggest/encourage LiveCD use, although it is > possible. > > -- Bruce > >
IDK, I used the Gentoo Live DVD for a bare metal install the other day...it works out of the box without any tweaks. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
