Galevsky schrieb: > On Jan 11, 2008 10:38 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Shaochun Wang: >> >> >>> Currently, Gentoo has not updated >>> its installation CD for a long time! >>> >> They don't need to. One week ago I used a GRML cd to install a new Gentoo >> system. >> > > & > > On Jan 11, 2008 10:22 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why do you think gentoo *needs* to update it's install CD? >> > > Because Gentoo is a distro, and as a distro, it should have a way to > be installed on a computer... I upgraded my hardware recently and my > previous gentoo distro was not able to boot (ICH9 + JMicron > controller) because no SATA HD was recognized with my old 2.6.18 > kernel.... the only way to boot was livecd with right kernel/modules. > But Gentoo was not able to provide a *so basic feature*, the one that > let me boot on my computer.... and you see no needs with that ? Well, > if Gentoo is not able to make my computer booting, it is sure that I > have no need to get maintained portage nor any one of the ebuilds... > > [..] > > Gal' > Right, basicly telling people "You have to depend on / use other distros to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide this" sounds a little fishy. It makes Gentoo look incomplete.
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