The Gentoo Release Engineering project is pleased to announce the much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named 'Secret Sauce'. This release met with several delays due to an abnormally high number of security vulnerabilities in large packages which had to be rebuilt using the newer, secure versions of the packages. Update: Screenshots!
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Part of the problem with the installer is that the goal is to preserve as much flexibility from the CLI method as possible. Anyone who's installed Gentoo before knows that this makes it the most ambitious graphical installer project ever attempted for Linux. I've never used it, but I've heard good things.
I don't care much about the Gentoo releases, because I don't even use the Gentoo install media. Why use a second-rate LiveCD if you don't have to? I typically install from an Ubuntu LiveCD or any random Linux install I happen to have on the system. I keep a copy of Tom's Root Boot on a floppy in case the machine won't boot from a CD (possibly because it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive). A serial cable is useful if there's no VGA adapter. That should cover all of your bases, although you might think about cross-compiling if the machine is cerca 1998 or older.
fdisk, mount, wget, tar, chroot, rsync, vi, emerge, vi, rc-update, make menuconfig, vi, emerge -e world && emerge -e world, etc-update, exit, umount, reboot... Easy as pie ;-)
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2005-07-10
Do they have an automated installer now similar to at least Debian? I remember my first Ubuntu install, the instructions are really good but since I moved I haven't gotten into their auto installer (last time I used it I hosed my system a couple of years ago)