Summary: | less automated stuff on the liveCD would be nice.. | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Eric Brown <eric.brown> |
Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Eric Brown
2004-08-23 04:36:20 UTC
You can just boot with the "nodetect" option. This option forgoes all hardware detection. We really do not force anything upon the users except simple detection of a NIC, mouse, vid card, etc. Everything else, including SCSI, is optional. Providing an option like the one you proposed would be duplicating code. I see where you are coming from, but every person in our userbase is not a linux hacker. If we took away autodetection, I can assure you that there would be screaming. If you hate it so much, just boot w/ "nodetect". There's also "nodhcp", which forgoes the DHCP detection. Also, I am working on a new version of the livecd-tools, which will cause dhcp detection to progress in the background, rather than hold up the boot process. Also, John... This should be WONTFIX, as we won't fix it... *grin* 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. |