I can understand chris's position. but it would be nice if he would consider the development of a script for the "livecd" that could extract the stage4 on it and include documentation in the handbook on how to do it.
being done for next release. i'm assuming you meant stage3 here.
because as is the installers don't allow for enough flexibility.
on the contrary, most of our problems in the installer come from offering too much flexibility. I personally would like to know who decided to put bottom
and I think top partition size limits in the installer. the limits should have been dictated by the filesystem limits themselves.
partition limits are decided by the size of the drive and the other partitions on it.
another option might be a "skip section" of the installer." that way we can on do the stage4 part, and forget the rest if we want. would any of this be such a hard and impossible thing for releng to do and support?
this support already exists. the installer has modes for stage4 and chroot installations. -Codeman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
