[LIVEDVD] Gentoo RR4 & RR64 LiveDVD Thread

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

I am re-uploading the file
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donvella · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 18

I have an AMD64 and I am worried that the version that I am downloading from http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Gentoo-RR64-LiveDVD-Download-5256.html is the wrong version. Sure it says it is the Gentoo RR64 LiveDVD 2.60 version, but when i activate the link to download it, it comes up with Gentoo-R44-2.60.4.iso and I have tried looking everywhere for the 2.60 version of the RR64. I do not wish to use my bandwith to download this file if i can just download the alternative 2.50 which may work, although from reading through this post it seems to have some problems. Can you please help, much appreciated.
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wk · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 2

Hey donvella ,have a look at
http://lxnay.dnsalias.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=27
Here is the "old" version of RR64 2.50
The newer one RR64 3.0 is in development look at
http://lxnay.dnsalias.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54&Itemid=2

donvella · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 18

Sorry to be rude wk, but you didnt answer my question. I just want to know if the version im downloading from the site i got it from will run fine on amd64, for that i hear the 2.50 has some flaws. I would rather download a fully working distro from the start then waste of 3gb+ on upload/download for this file.
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playfool · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:02 am Post subject:

Since lxnay was so kind as to recoomend me that I buy a dvd burner, I'll return the favor and recommend that he buy faster internet.

Adwin · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:23 am Post subject:

1: Your LiveDVD was a nice project, but since you stopped paying heed to users' general comments, it has gone waaaay down. I have been writing about my own live dvd for some time now, I hope to get it released any time now. I have the hosting and bandwidth needed.
Since I have been hosting RR64 2.50 and unofficially RR4 2.6x, there were non stop some script kiddies trying to get access to my server, since I have put up restriction to 1 connection/IP.

2: You should check your official forums scripts. Registration doesn't work. Even activated user account doesn't work.

3: Why the HELL do you try increasing the size of your DVDs since the most that matters is STABILITY and SPEED.
WHO the HELL gives a damn about 10 window managers.?
I understand n00bs need a user-friendly environment to work, and you ARE trying to promote *nix in every way possible, but that's waaaaaay off mark. As I have written in earlier suggestions, a LiveCD/DVD has to be LIGHTWEIGHT, FAST, STABLE.
Nobody will be interested in using a liveDVD which takes AGES to load, the same goes for applications.

4: I used to get excited about reiser4. But I have lately studied that filesystem in depth, and things you can do with it are possible with other FS's, provided you have got a lot of RAM.
It implements functions on the userspace level, consuming CPU power. Believe me, even with a dual opteron setup as mine, database access and synchronous access for any other use can be quite CPU intensive.
The best would be to mount all the necessary stuff as a TMPFS in your RAM, which is WAAAAY faster than your HDD, even on Reiser4.
Anyway, EVEN be it Reiser4, without journaling that filesystem won't last long.

5: I am a net-admin and sys-admin, trying to get a PRACTICAL approach, I just hope you will take the criticism positively.
Adding functionality does work sometimes, but not at the cost of stability and speed.
Linus understood that a looong time ago, since the age of 2.6 kernels, where guys were trying to get it as functional as possible.
But what happens then?
You get new functions, but at the same time add bugs and stability issues. You should try fixing pending problems instead of adding new ones.

carpman · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:44 am Post subject:

how much disk space is required to apply 2.60.4 patch to 2.60.3 iso?

i asked because i tried to apply patch from livedvd with iso on 9gb partition with 300mb swap 1gb ram and got:

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

carpman · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:51 am Post subject:

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

carpman · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:20 am Post subject:

carpman · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:42 am Post subject:

Ok just to let you know, created an 18gb partition and moved files there and patch worked ok, seems you need more tham 6.5gb free space.
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playfool · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject:

Okay posting this from 2.60, aside detecting my ATI 9700 and setting it up correctly not many fuck ups at first glance. Still working on making it like my dk keyboard.

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

lindmik · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject:

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carpman · Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

some firefox extension would be nice, nothing fancy just ones to improve compatibilty and security:

User agent switcher
spookstick
noscript
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Throx · n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 25

minor bug: in isolinux you show "gentoo resolution=1280x1024" (whatever) as an example, but the right one would be "gentoo res=1280x1024"
I just figured that out cuz my widescreen wasn't detected properly...

BUT this LiveDVD is awesome, keep on going, but I won't touch the Installer again, it destroyed my partition table... (working again, soo.... )

oddflux · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 6

Well, this may have been covered but for those of us too poor to buy DVD writers, is there a RR4 LIVECD of some sort? of which we can burn to CD?
Thankyou for your patronage.
-oddflux.

Debentoo_Gao · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:24 am Post subject:

No more mirror to download the great livedvd? In here,I've only 2 KB/s via bt£¬& the FTP couldn't be visited

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lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

It should be nice if someone could donate me some ftp space or help in speeding up the torrent. It's running at 1MB/sec
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_Adik_ · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

Yes, we can have all of those stuff, but there's a little problem. Everything that is stored in /home, is mounted r/w in RAM, and on old computers, 1Mb of RAM makes the difference. So, is possible to install FFOX extensions on a system-wide directory? (like /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox (compiled from source firefox package) or /opt/firefox (firefox-bin package) )
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