[clue-tech] Gentoo for installfest.

[David L. Anselmi]

If you wanted a Gentoo CD to use at installfest, would the 2006.0 live 
CD be the one you want?  Does it have GRP packages on it?  Is that the 
way to get a complete system without having to hit the Internet.

I'm toying with the idea of setting up a netboot install server, which 
means providing an installer initrd and package repository for each 
distro.  The Gentoo handbook seems to be a pretty manual process so I'm 
wondering what the preferred way of installing it is.

My preference is to have all required packages available in CD images. 
That way we can burn CDs for anyone who wants them (or who can't make 
netbooting work).  If we have the CDs, I'd like to use them as a network 
repository so we don't have to burn disks to use them, or go out to the 
Internet.  Granted, depending on the distro the CDs may be a little out 
of date.

This looks pretty easy with Debian, Fedora, and SuSE (via OpenSuSE). 
Hopefully Gentoo is too.

Dave