Bug 215093

Summary:	Gentoo Live/Install CD doesn't have fat/ntfs support compiled in kernel
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Michal Majchrowicz <mmajchrowicz>
Component:	All ISO	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0_beta1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.