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[Daniel Goller <dgoller AT satx.rr.com>]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:25:12 +0800
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/8/07, "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx> wrote:
> >
> > The one that references silver thistle if any... else bug ppl that did it
> > to write one ;)
> >
> 
> :) i have a name, but i have no email address...
> 


no email address? try this one, even if i haven't worked on renewing the iso 
with a fresher tarball or "spellified" the generation process, i am not 
abandoning it.
I just have little time to work on it, and in the time i have i lack the 
required motivation to be honest.
If you have any questions, let me know, i would probably notice irc before i 
notice an email, but i will keep an eye out for newer emails.

in theory, you boot the iso and it finds your cd and mounts it on /cdrom, you 
use (c)fdisk to create your disk layout, you run the enter_camelot script 
passing it your /dev/ROOT and possible /dev/BOOT, which then mounts the 
partition given, unpacks the tarball and chroots into it, inside you can get 
grimoires, at which point a toolchain upgrade would be the next step, after 
that rebuild the system.

after chrooting you could build a kernel, reboot, then upgrade toolchain and 
rebuild system, it's what i did, but the CD's kernel is robust enough to keep 
working on it.

the cd provides several screens of which the last (Screen 3) is for 'irc'ing 
(has a user on this screen instead of root as main thing).

i know this sounds crude, but as gentoo defector, i might have more had 
gentoo transplants in mind, or even people switching from other distros and 
able to partition and format a harddrive w/o an installer, the main goal to 
be able to install a running system from this CD was achieved, it just needs 
a spit shine.

I'm tired so i end it here before it turns out super rambly.

Daniel

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