Bug 11890

Summary:	Stage3 should contain basic packages needed to boot Gentoo
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Charles Goodwin <charles.goodwin>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charles Goodwin 2002-12-10 04:02:43 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-22 01:23:51 UTC

Speedtouch support is now on the "2002122100" iso at 
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 11:24:40 UTC

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.