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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:23 am Post subject: What is the "Admin CD?" |
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What is the Admin CD found on the main gentoo.org downloads page for amd64 and x86?
One screen down on this page just below the Minimal Install CD here: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
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See bug #352152
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Yeah, thanks, I'd found that bug report. It's still a mystery. Somebody is keeping it up to date. Why?
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I keep it around for my rescue cd. *shrugs*
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| figueroa wrote: | | Yeah, thanks, I'd found that bug report. It's still a mystery. Somebody is keeping it up to date. Why? |
What is the mystery? Seems like a good idea to have an install method with a more capable environment from which to work. I haven't gotten around to making a replacement for the previously Gentoo based "rescue" CD, so I'm guessing the Admin CD would work instead.
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| pjp wrote: | | figueroa wrote: | | Yeah, thanks, I'd found that bug report. It's still a mystery. Somebody is keeping it up to date. Why? |
What is the mystery? Seems like a good idea to have an install method with a more capable environment from which to work. I haven't gotten around to making a replacement for the previously Gentoo based "rescue" CD, so I'm guessing the Admin CD would work instead. |
It's pretty lame to have a "more capable environment" with zero documentation regarding its capability or use. Why the secrecy? In my opinion, this just looks bad for Gentoo.
Just about any decent distribution's live-cd will make a lovely rescue environment, and some have been specifically cooked-up to serve that need. For example, here is an excellent one with some minimal but sufficient documentation. https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/files/Community_Respins/MX-Workbench/
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I thought there was some mention of it having more tools installed, but I cannot find it. I agree that it ought to at least have a comparably minimum mention here as does the minimal CD.
I'm fine with live environments existing, but I don't use them. Primarily I don't want to have to download unnecessary (for me) gigabytes of GUI and then deal with a painfully slow environment for the 5 minutes I'm in that environment.
While looking for a description of the admin CD, I did notice a "live-GUI", though I'm only guessing that it is a new iteration of the old LiveDVD.
And now that I'm thinking about it, I may be incorrectly recalling that the Admin CD was originally an internal tool, so perhaps that could be why it never got any documentation. As an example, see also: Catalyst.
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Ouch -- that live-gui at 4.9 GB must have the kitchen sink included.
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bootable_media wrote:
ix.io is down. Please update. Thanks a lot.
In particular, I think ZFS is still not included in the minimal CD, it is only available in the Admin CD, isn't it? How about if the LiveGUI CD includes ZFS? I think we need a list of modules of each of them, so we can compare them.
Update: Sorry i overlooked. There is a nice list for LiveGUI ISO. It does not include ZFS.
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There's a systemrescuecd spin with zfs, it's arch based now last I looked but meh.
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| midnite wrote: | | ix.io is down. Please update. Thanks a lot. |
The wiki is a community effort, so anyone can create a wiki account and update the information. Including the versions of each ISO would probably be helpful as well, although I'm guessing they don't change significantly.
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