Yea I am glad to see release candidate 3 but

Sir_Stinksalot

RC3 is out yay! But can't you guys start putting an alias for ll on the live cd. I think the only time I ever use ls -l is on a Gentoo live cd. I mean like ll might as well be a command because its in like every linux distro now. And like the HP-UX boxes I used to configure had ll.

The live cd is missing out on a great little addition. I mean come on thats like the most important improvement since vi w00t!

plate · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 4:42 am Post subject:

I'd like to see that proposal on bugs.gentoo.org...

Where on the main website does it say "Gentoo Linux is for the lazy and impatient", again? Hell, no!

Sir_Stinksalot · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 5:24 am Post subject:

Hey man its not Laziness its habit. :wink:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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zenon · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 263

I just did ll and it works, what are you talking about?

oh, thanks for the tip BTW

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 11:49 am Post subject:

and you can create an alias if it isn't on the system per default...

Sir_Stinksalot · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:42 am Post subject:

zenon · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 263

lol! No dude, I've been running gentoo for a month... Sorry, didn't realize you were talking about the install.

Why loose sleep over the install? In like 15 minutes your permanent system will be up and going anyway :p j/k

Sir_Stinksalot · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject:

Well its cuz I like to use the gentoo live cd to recover my system when I get rambunctious and mess it up. Like whatever you do make sure you have a boot disk before trying out Ark linux. There is an ancient version of grub on it that you can't stop from installing and it dont recognize reiserfs. In comes the handy dandy livecd w00t.

Elm0 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 281 Location: UK

I mount the image file on my HD and add in a few little tweaks such as this. I suggest that you change the LiveCD yourself to incorporate this change.

I find it highly unlikely any non-standard changes will be included on the CD.

idl · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject:

cool, you realy do learn something every day

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Sir_Stinksalot · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:10 am Post subject:

interesting how do you mount a cd image? excuse my ignorance.

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

mount -t iso9660 -o loop cd_image mntpt/

you need loopback support in your kernel hopefully you will have it

Sir_Stinksalot · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:43 am Post subject:

hehe guess I could have figured that out hehe. thanks though

really nifty I will make my own gentoo live cd w00t

TheQuickBrownFox · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 37

I also want to make changes to the livecd image, but can't figure out what to do with the .cloop file.
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zenon · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2002 Posts: 263

lemme get this straight, you download the liveCD to HD then mount rw make changes and burn?

hey that sounds cool, would it be possible to make all config changes to things like make.conf and fstab on the iso B4 installing and have an install that "installs itself"?

that'd be pretty neat!

TheQuickBrownFox · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 37

Yes, but only if you can make changes to the gentoo "filesystem" on the cd.

I found the documentation on this topic sparse and it seems like the livecd changes a lot for every new release candidate.

What I want to know, is how can I get involved in building/designing a livecd? There's the livecd-ng ebuild. It's masked and doesn't seem to work very well. YMMV
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