Re: Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later?

mkisofs is really not hard to do Andrew I can do that, I have requirements
that need to emulate the installer cd. If I just needed to make a custum cd
catalyst is fine or the good old fasion way works too. The point is your
installer cd is useless since it cannot be reproduced this makes it
proprietary, thats not to say it doesnt work as intended.


On 10/20/05, Michael Crute <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/05, Mike Rosset <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Why not there valid questions from the Gentoo community? why cant it be
> > discussed?
> >
> > On 10/20/05, Andrew Gaffney < [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Michael Crute wrote:
> > > > On 10/20/05, *Mike Rosset* < [email protected]
> > > > <mailto: [email protected]>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've all ready asked for those and got shot down appartently Chris
> > > > wont release them. Also Chris will try to bump this to another list
> > > > releng, more then likely
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Why not release them? Is this not open source? What's so secret
> > > about an
> > > > iso image?
> > >
> > > Let's not start this again. It comes down to this:
> > >
> > > * they are a work in progress, constantly changing
> > > * they don't work with the released version of catalyst
> > >
> >
> Well... as I gather this has already been discussed.
>
> Alternatively if you need this so badly make your own darned cd. It really
> cant be that difficult. After a simple google search I ended up with this.
>
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php
> http://www.geocities.com/potato.geo/bootlinuxcd.html
>
> -Mike
>
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