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Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released
safeness writes "Gentoo 2005.1 was released yesterday. Included in its release is an additional experimental LiveCD with the long awaited graphical installer. Now there's one less reason for your friends to switch to Gentoo! Get it here!" And darthcamaro writes "Hard to tell from the change log what's new ... but this story on internetnews.com notes new installation hardware support and WiFi."
If you are able to get wireless in Knoppix, then you can download stage1 and the portage snapshot from the internet and install from there. There is no need for the Gentoo LiveCD to install.
Illegal? Samir, This is America.
It is a species of penguin.http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/pengu ins/gentoo.html Specifically, a very fast swimming penguin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Penguin
Screenshots are here
use dispatch-conf then.
$ rm /etc/make.profile && ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/ /etc/make.profile && env-update
Run as root as usual, guessing that you are running x86.
**TODO** Steal someone elses sig.
This is the live SOURCE cd. The time is not to boot the disk (hint, a whole compiled system is on there), it's the time to have an install on your hard drive where all the stuff has then been recompiled exactly to your specific desires.
The article text is confusing. There are 2 "releases" at hand.
1. Gentoo 2005.1 - a normal official release, updated packages and installation media but nothing mind-blowingly new.
2. An experimental LiveCD which boots into a graphical environment and includes an early version of the upcoming Gentoo Linux Installer.
The Installer "preview" is not included on the standard 2005.1 media.
The pain-in-the-butt, lengthy, confusing terminal installation process is what I like about Gentoo. It is the first Linux distro I ever used, and the difficult installation process gave me some nice hands-on experience and put me ahead of the curve compared to most Linux n00bs. Having a graphical hold-my-hand-daddy version takes all the fun out of it!
For instance, the gentoo installation was my first experience manually editing fstab, compiling a kernel, editing various files in /etc by hand, so and so forth. Installing gentoo is not so much a learning experience than it is a "frame of mind" changer. It completely forced me out of using gui configs to the point where I now prefer to go edit files by hand. Of course, you could always go edit files by hand in other distributions as well, but gentoo (moreso the gentoo community and documention) is more supportive of it and explains it much better than other distributions that I've seen. (Disclaimer, I haven't used debian, so I can't speak of its community and documentation).
I think you missed the second part from the FAQ:
and libparted doesn't support it very well
No matter what the developer's opinion of ReiserFS or Hans is, I think the second part of the FAQ entry is much more of an explanation as to why there is no ReiserFS support.
And when you research the Gentoo site it mentions the Installation tool/live CD is in the experimental fork on the mirrors. Checking there shows the 2005.0 version not the 2005.1 version the article suggests.
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What Gentoo calls a "LiveCD" is mostly different from what every other distribution refers to as a "LiveCD". It's still a true "LiveCD" in that it is a bootable cd that contains a fully working instance of Gentoo on it. However this working instance of Gentoo is a minimal, command line driven (until this release) instance and its purpose is to give you an environment in which you can begin installing Gentoo from scratch to your hard drive.