[clue-tech] Gentoo for installfest.

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 18:02 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 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

I have Gentoo CDs for the AMD64 that I can bring.  I haven't tried them
yet, so I am curious to see a Gentoo installation.