On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:55:04PM -0800, "Pawe?? Hajdan, Jr." wrote
> The serious problem here is that we need *new* users. A non-working > install CD is a really bad thing here, don't you think? ;-) While we're at it, can we please also make a USB-key "install ISO"? I'm not asking merely because "other distros do it". I'm asking because the situation has changed in the past half-dozen years. Back in 2005 or 2006, almost all machines had a CD and/or DVD, and many older PC BIOSes did not allow for booting from a USB key. Fast-forward to 2012 (and soon 2013) and... * just about every PC is capable of booting from USB * quite a few netbooks/notebooks do not have a CD or DVD drive. E.g. I had to boot from a Knoppix USB key as my working environment to do the initial portion of the Gentoo install on my netbook. Yes, I'm aware of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml, but even I have occasionally fouled up those intructions. It doesn't exactly encourage new Gentoo users to have to go through that tap-dance. Arch linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media manages to have a dual-bootable (CD / USB-key) image as a standard feature. In addition to installation, it would make the base of a good system rescue utility. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
