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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Install step order.
From: "Paul Coucher" <pcoucher () demon ! net>
Date: 2002-02-26 8:42:08
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Hi, I'm a new potential migratee from FreeBSD &, as with every distro I have
played with, find myself asking a question:
Why is the bootloader & bootability put in place & tested at the end of a
possibly lengthy install/net download?
Wouldn't it make sense to boot from the iso, partition, mkfs & build fstab,
transfer the cd kernel & install a bootloader.
Then you can reboot from the system, & prove that you can, before the
lengthy build process.
Sure the bootloader wouldn't be optimised for your processor - unless you
added the oportunity to edit make.conf & built the bootloader to the hdd,
but am I right in thinking that emerge could rebuild that later?
What am I missing?
Thanks for your time & thanks for the distro,
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Paul Coucher, pcoucher@demon.net DDI: +44 (0)1702 214692
Redefining "24/7 Mission criticality"
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