From gentoo-dev Wed Jul 24 12:52:21 2002 From: Bart Verwilst Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:52:21 +0000 To: gentoo-dev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer CD / Live CD X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=102751436917383 On Wednesday 24 July 2002 06:48, Brandon Low wrote: || Wow, great work, I haven't had a chance to try out your CD yet, but if || what you say about it is true, sounds like you did the gentoo community a || great service! If you haven't already, contact Seemant Kulleen || and Daniel Robbins about || getting mention all over the gentoo.org site and such ;-) Thanks! Bleh.. Would be cool if somebody notified me about this stuff as well... I've been trying for some time now to collect some programmers who can assi= st=20 in making the installer, but if i'm not informed about stuff like this, we'= ll=20 have lots of duplicate efforts, don't you think?... || || --Brandon || || On Tue, 07/23/02 at 21:01:16 -0700, christoph@lameter.com wrote: || > On http://telemetrybox.org/livecd/ you can find some CDs with live || > gentoo installations. Check out http://telemetrybox.org/livecd/startup || > for what you see when you bootup. || > || > CD does: || > - Boot a fully functional gentoo system from CD. || > - Autodetects hardware || > - Starts a browser (links in graphics mode) displaying instructions and || > allowing to browse the net. || > || > - Can play mp3s while you install. || > - Can play videos (0.4) || > - Can autoconfigure and run X off the CD. mozilla, xfce and fluxbox || > provided. || > - Contains a menu based installer || > - Contains a menu based management interface. || > || > So far I have had >300 accesses to the image and some reports of || > successful installations. || > || > I plan to enhance the CD to include KDE and Koffice. All binaries are || > prebuild for Pentium on the CD and will be installed without building || > them if so desired. This allows a gentoo installation in 10 minutes || > with a comfortable set of software.The installation process from || > http://gentoo.org works of course. You only have a much more comfortab= le || > environment. || > || > || > _______________________________________________ || > gentoo-dev mailing list || > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org || > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev =2D-=20 Bart Verwilst Gentoo Linux Developer, Release Coordinator Gent, Belgium _______________________________________________ gentoo-dev mailing list gentoo-dev@gentoo.org http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev