Bug 68891 – Documentation should account for different CD Type

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jason S. 2004-10-25 13:55:29 UTC]

I used the Minimal Universal CD.  The documentation on the referenced URL assumes that I have local access to portage and the distfiles.
The Minimal CD does not contain this information, and the documentation says nothing about that fact.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use the Minimal CD
2. Follow the Documentation to Step 5.d
3. Look for files on CD (and fail).
4. Scratch Head

Actual Results:  
I originally downloaded portage from a mirror, and then saw the list of
distfiles and was not about to try downloading each of them.

After starting the installation over again, I just skipped that portage install,
and found the answer on the next step.

Expected Results:  
There should be some note that if you have web access and are using the Minimal
CD, you can skip to the next step and emerge --sync or emerge-webrsync if you're
behind a firewall.

[Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-10-25 15:16:46 UTC]

The LiveCDs are described right at the beginning of the handbook:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap2_sect3

"""
Gentoo's Minimal LiveCD
-  Contains no stages, no Portage snapshot, no GRP packages and therefore not suitable for networkless installation
"""