Why does Gentoo have install CDs?

Hypnos · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:37 am Post subject: Why does Gentoo have install CDs?

Why does Gentoo even bother with install CDs? They're a pain to maintain, and half the architectures don't even have them.

For x86/amd64 and SPARC one can use sysresccd which is only twice the size of the "minimal" x86/amd64 install image. Moreover, having a sysresccd disc/stick around is handy if you b0rk your system.
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

It started off as a joke. Mike Rafusiano said, "lets make an 'install CD' and see how many fools download and use it". Then they had to wait until people stopped so they'd know how many. Mike moved on, and the other guys forgot about the joke over the years, and here we are.
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d2_racing · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:10 am Post subject:

Yeah, why bother to use a LiveCD that is CLI only when you can install Gentoo with SystemRescueCD and browse the handbook and be online on the forum/IRC if you are stuck.
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krinn · Advocate Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 3677

For news and ranking shit of site that classify linux (yep, read distrowatch here).

With their system, any distro that doesn't make noise is a bad distro.
And any dumb distro that update every 1 day is a kick ass distro.

So a distro like gentoo is bad for their ranking, but with a livecd/dvd you are getting news & fame.

genstorm · Advocate Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 2241 Location: Austria

Real distros have discs! :lol:

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:56 pm Post subject:

Like everything else that happens in Gentoo, its because someone want to make it happen.
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

Actually you do that with only one computer.
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LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 234

I mean you can install gentoo with the livecd with CLI-interface and on your other computer you can browse the forums etc...

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:43 pm Post subject:

With > 1 computer, the target can run anything, you ssh into the install.
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LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 234

but with the minimal install cd you can only browse with a text-browser (if I'm right)... anyway, next time I will try it the ssh-way, although with 16GB RAM one doesn't need to worry about RAM

krinn · Advocate Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 3677

Install cd and now people are reading the doc...

Gentoo has become too easy, maybe we should put back the good old installer to spice this again

LoTeK · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 234

well, I want to install gentoo on a smartphone and on a lemote-laptop which is very spicy (at least the smartphone installation)... and maybe if I have enough time left to build a small robot with gentoo as OS... sadly the robotic department at ETH uses ubuntu to run their robots

BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

I still think the Misa Guitar is the most awesome Gentoo yet.
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