the latest versions are r5 & r6 for x86, r3 & r4 for amd64
the stable, experimental & enhanced experimental (aka testing) releases are deprecated and are going to be removed from all mirrors soon
The goal of "small gentoo" is to provide a liveCD to support (most) of the most cutting edge hardware / features, yet stay as close as possible to the original gentoo-livecd
each release is being tested by myself for several hours, simulating an installation of gentoo
Hi there,
if you have problems with installing gentoo from a CD/DVD-Drive which is connected to the Jmicron-Chipset,
such as P5W DH Deluxe or P5B
or have ide-harddrives (probably S-ATA harddrives work too) connected to the JMicron-Controller (JMB361/363/36x)
then give this cd a try,
the first versions (stable, experimental) were based on the excellent gentoo 2006.1 minimal livecd & only the initrd & kernel were modified / updated
to enable support for newer hardware
2.6.18-rc4-no2 "To be..." | (Super Fix/Stability Attempt?)
kudos to cheater1034 for this perfect working kernel (and of course Andrew Morton for his patchset & the other kernel hackers
also big thanks to the gentoo programmers who created this fine piece of software (I love the initrd of this CD
kernel-module loading doesn't work so don't bother
the most recent versions are now based on the latest mm-sources (thanks to Andrew Morton
the kernel is "driven" by genkernel
in contrast to the original / "official" gentoo-livecd "small gentoo" has some "bleeding edge" parts, such as: glibc-2.5 (post-r1 [x86], amd64-r1 to amd64-r3), support for reiser4,
I'm looking forward to your feedback
Thanks to MrGreen, for hosting
For more information on "small gentoo", the Gentoo-based liveCD with JMicron-Support:
home of "small gentoo" (link)
One word of advice:
If you plan to use reiser4 for / (root), then don't enable RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes
since that may lead to the famous Segmentation fault of fsck.reiser4
don't also use readahead-list and readahead-list-early, however it works for me, so if you're into experiments, try it
HAVE A LOT OF FUN
kerneloftruth
last update: 10/26/2006



