Hi folks, yesterday I tried to use the 2006.0 LiveCD to backup some data from one friend's VFAT partition created from within Windows XP Home. Unfortunately this OS is quite common, yet it apparently creats the filesystem with a non-UTF8 NLS, probably cp852 or iso8859-2 (Central Europe). Neither of them is present on the LiveCD. On my x86 box, these modules are severak kBytes each which doesn't seem like huge size. I see it probably won't be possible to do it for 2006.1 but it might be worth adding to the next release.
LiveCD or InstallCD? If you're asking for it on the InstallCD, then the answer is "no", but we have space on the LiveCD.
Well, according to our docs [1], we have a "Minimal CD" and "LiveCD", so I'm a bit confused here :). The more supported NLSs the better, IMHO, but feel free to nuke it if you think it isn't worth adding. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2
OK. We need to make sure that the "defaults" like cp437, utf8 and iso8859-1 are definitely built-in on any kernel. The others will definitely need to be available, but can be done as modules.
(In reply to comment #3) > OK. We need to make sure that the "defaults" like cp437, utf8 and iso8859-1 > are definitely built-in on any kernel. The others will definitely need to be > available, but can be done as modules. > 'Specially cp437, for things like bug 173117. Unicode is always nice, too.
I'm going to check through this to ensure that we have a working set for most configurations.
Is this going to make it in for 2008.0?
Check the kconfigs in SVN. If not, we can add them.
According to stuff at releng/trunk/releases/2008.0/kconfig (thanks to agaffney for a link given on irc), they are going to be enabled on most configurations for InstallCD, but not for LiveCD. If releng think that this is not worth the space on the *CD, well, I'm fine with that, that's your call. If you don't want them on the "minimal" CDs, feel free to close this bug.
They really need to be enabled for both.
Hi! Today I needed Hebrew codepages (iso-8859-8, 862)... LiveCD only would be great! Thanks!
This was fixed in 2008.0
