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Bug 215093 - Gentoo Live/Install CD doesn't have fat/ntfs support compiled in kernel
Summary: Gentoo Live/Install CD doesn't have fat/ntfs support compiled in kernel
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: All ISO (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Reported: 2008-03-27 18:14 UTC by Michal Majchrowicz
Modified: 2008-07-06 17:44 UTC (History)
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Description Michal Majchrowicz 2008-03-27 18:14:56 UTC 
Some machines (old ones or partially damaged) do not have usb,cdrom and floppy. As a result the only option to install linux is to use apps like laodlin or grub4dos. Unfortunatelly since Gentoo's Live/Install CDs are not build with fat32/ntfs support compiled in kernel you have to use different distro or old release. Recently I had installed Gentoo on such machine and I had to download Gentoo 2004.3 as described here: http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-12 17:23:37 UTC 
OK, since this could only possibly be supported properly on amd64/x86, I've gone ahead and made these built-in rather than modules.
Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-06 17:44:11 UTC 
This should be fixed in 2008.0, which is now released.