I've never used a gentoo-live-cd and the reason I use the gentoo-minimal -cd is it's possible to bring speakup up on boot and for those few of us who can't see the screen and haven't got sighted help nearby, that makes all manner of independent computer operations possible.
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Rich Freeman wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 08:09:32 > From: Rich Freeman <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installation problems > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 4:53 AM Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> I haven't used the Gentoo installer discs for years, but you should be > >> able to create your own mount points. > > > > Is it still supported? I thought it was abandoned again a good while back. > > That thing has come and gone so many times, I can't keep up with when it > > is active or isn't. > > > > The minimal CD, or creating mountpoints? The former has always > existed, and the latter has existed since the 70s. > > And please add non-html quotes - I really don't want to have to edit > replies... > > As far as the minimal CD goes, you an just create mountpoints, but > really I'm not sure why anybody uses it in the first place. I just > use a liveCD from ubuntu or whatever - there are a bazillion liveCDs > (including Gentoo-based ones), and just about all of them are more > useful than the Gentoo minimal iso. I'm not sure why we even produce > one, except maybe for the same reasons everybody sets the default > editor to nano. :) > > --
