Having hosed my gentoo system with the glibc problem (ie accidentally letting portage unmerge 2.3.1 in favour of 2.2.5) I was stuck with just a live CD to recover things. The forum fix for this didn't work so I had to reinstall. The Gentoo install process does not support my USB Speedtouch modem. So I'm fubarred. I've had to download GRUB, a kernel, and metalog and burn them to a CD to install them manually. I had problems mounting a floppy (despite there being a /mnt/floppy dir there isn't the info in fstab and I couldn't remember the fs type of a floppy at the time). Basically the install needs to allow for people not having an inet connection initially for those whose inet connections are not supported by the liveCD. (More than a few.) This should allow for people to get a fully working base kernel/GNU environment for them to reboot and mount a drivers CD for their inet connection.
Speedtouch support is now on the "2002122100" iso at http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
