Bug 12924 – x86 install docs have references to livecd ISO w/o pcmcia_core, etc packages but instructions to use said packages

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• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description ... 2002-12-29 20:08:21 UTC]

links to: http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/
for: livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso

documentation reads:
"If you have a PCMCIA network card, you will need to do some additional trickery.

Warning: To avoid problems with cardmgr, you must run it before you enter the
chroot portion of the install.

Code listing 4.1: Loading PCMCIA Modules

# insmod pcmcia_core
# insmod i82365
# insmod ds
# cardmgr -f
"

this iso does NOT contain pcmcia_core packages, etc. and therefore docs are
inaccurate. Bug 8067 refers to this problem, but the docs are still wrong.
Perhaps updating the ISO would solve both problems? (seems pretty easy)

Or pointing people who need PCMCIA to the "experimental" releases at:
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental/livecd/

kellen

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-12-29 22:15:53 UTC]

the iso's have already been updated

http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/

[Comment 2 ... 2002-12-31 12:47:08 UTC]

maybe those ISO's have been updated, but the ones in the main archive that the
install DOCS at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
point to are still incorrect, specifically:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/x86/livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso
  

which was built dec 18, and does not contain pcmcia packages.

Think of someone first coming and wanting to test gentoo, and finding that the
basic instructions for their laptop were wrong. They're probably not going to
read the lists *before* trying to install, and at that point they'll have
already had to download a hundred megs and burn a cd.

As before, pointing the docs to the "new" cd images, or updating the "old"
livecd image would be appropriate.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-01-10 18:14:42 UTC]

1.4rc2 is released and it has pcmcia