Gentoo 11.0

[throdon]

The new Gentoo live DVD is out. Looks pretty nice when I took it for a spin.http://www.gentoo.org/news/20110308-livedvd.xml

[sabayonino]

Great News !

Thanks

[speedyx]

Here is so slow the torrent download!

[sabayonino]

Here is so slow the torrent download!

uhm ... amd64 goes over 6 Mb/s

[speedyx]

depend on when you try:
22.49
0.08

[Skull Fire]

sadly thier live dvd's are not installation dvd's . you still need atleast a day and a virgin sacrifice to install it to hard drive.

[throdon]

just a quick thought. since the gentoo live DVD has the ability to emerge can you use 'molecule' to remaster it so that you can include "anaconda"? If that is not an option could you use the persistance boot option to add an overlay and add/emerge 'anaconda' after it's already running? I understand the Gentoo philosophy of the live DVD installer, but it's open source and if someone had the ability could this work?

[Fitzcarraldo]

I tried the multilib ISO (livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-11.0.iso) with VirtualBox 4.0.2 r69518 on my Core i7 laptop but could not get Gentoo amd64 to boot; only Gentoo x86 would boot to a working desktop. I posted my problem in Gentoo Bugzilla Bug Report No. 354643. Gentoo user Fernando V. came to my rescue and advised me that the image works much better with QEMU-KVM than VirtualBox. So here is how I got it working in the end with QEMU-KVM:

1. Make sure you are in your home directory, then log in as root user:

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$ cd
$ su

2. Install qemu-kvm:

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# emerge -1v qemu-kvm

The following message was displayed at the end of the build:

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 * If you don't have kvm compiled into the kernel, make sure you have
 * the kernel module loaded before running kvm. The easiest way to
 * ensure that the kernel module is loaded is to load it on boot.
 * For AMD CPUs the module is called 'kvm-amd'
 * For Intel CPUs the module is called 'kvm-intel'
 * Please review /etc/conf.d/modules for how to load these
 *
 * Make sure your user is in the 'kvm' group
 * Just run 'gpasswd -a <USER> kvm', then have <USER> re-login.
 *
 * You will need the Universal TUN/TAP driver compiled into your
 * kernel or loaded as a module to use the virtual network device
 * if using -net tap.  You will also need support for 802.1d
 * Ethernet Bridging and a configured bridge if using the provided
 * kvm-ifup script from /etc/kvm.
 *
 * The gnutls use flag was renamed to ssl, so adjust your use flags.

3. Add yourself to the kvm group:

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# gpasswd -a fitzcarraldo kvm

4. Load the module for my Intel Core i7 CPU:

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# modprobe kvm-intel

5. Check the module was loaded:

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# lsmod | grep kvm
kvm_intel              39148  0
kvm                   183285  1 kvm_intel
#

6. Log out as root user, to get back to your own account:

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# exit

7. Log out of your own account, and log back in again.

8. Check that the "lm" flag is set for my CPU in the file /proc/cpuinfo, otherwise it is not possible to use qemu-kvm with this ISO:

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$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep " lm "

9. Create disk image file:

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$ qemu-img create -f qcow qemu_disk.img 3G

10. Launch the ISO in QEMU-KVM:

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$ qemu-kvm -smp 2 -m 1024m -boot d -cdrom ./livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-11.0.iso -hda qemu_disk.img

[batvink]

actually, gentoo does have a installer.
it's called Quickstart.
you can read about it here: http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php

there's also another gentoo based system called TOOROX.
it's German made, and just like Sabayon it has an installer.
except TOOROX has only one packagemanger: portage.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=toorox

but Sabayon is by far better

im running Toorox in Virtualbox for testing purposes,
the installer is very simple, you don't see any progress,
it's basic gnome, so not everything works out of the box,
but the control center has some interesting features;
automatic installation of ATI or NVidia drivers, multimedia libs and flash plugin.
see screenshot:
http://pastebin.sabayon.org/pasties/store/5934/Schermafdruk.png

still, it can't compete with Sabayon.