"Warning: The 2008.0 releases are deprecated ..." Really?

gthiruva · n00b Joined: 03 May 2009 Posts: 24 Location: Vegas, Baby!

Just noticed on the "Get Gentoo" page that it says "Warning: The 2008.0 releases are deprecated, and their links will be removed soon."

Is that really true? It doesn't seem like there's anything newer than 2008.0 there.

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Yes, 2008.0 is deprecated. Grab some recent livecd of any other distribution and install Gentoo with that, using on of the autobuild-stages(from one of the Gentoo mirrors). The 2008.0 cds and stages are pretty much useless today and bring a lot of hassle when used, so avoid them at all means.

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cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

However, the 2008.0 _profile_ is still the default profile.

Will

gthiruva · n00b Joined: 03 May 2009 Posts: 24 Location: Vegas, Baby!

That first link at the top for http://torrents.gentoo.org/ threw me off. Thanks for your help folks!

But the next questions is: is the minimal install ISO the only ISO available for the 2009 builds? Or is there a more complete one?

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TheAbu · Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject:

Another nice solution, if you want to be able to use a graphical browser while installing (nothing wrong with links btw, I love it, it's just that not everyone is comfortable with that kind of tools anymore) you might consider using the SystemRescueCD as your install CD. It's gentoo based and works really nicely.
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pigeon768 · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 683

I'd recommend using sysresccd regardless. It's a great tool not just for installing gentoo, but for diagnosing and fixing misbehaving PCs.

takamura · n00b Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

I was confused too, by that page.

It is not stated there, but I thought the weekly builds were the "unstable" version and the 2008.0 release were the "stable" version, so when I read that the last apparently "stable" release was deprecated I thought the 2009.0 will come really soon, and I wait a long time a 2009.0 release... Probably it should be stated that the recomended release is the weekly build.

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:20 am Post subject:

billydv · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:40 am Post subject:

That's what I would like to know also, we are well into 2009 and the profiles are still last years.
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silvrhand · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:12 am Post subject:

MaximeG · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 722 Location: Belgium

Hi,

Use the weekly builds for up to date Gentoo LiveCD's.

Otherwise, http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page (Gentoo Based) provides also a nice LiveCD to install Gentoo, plus a bunch of nice tools for diagnostics.

Regards,
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lalebarde · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:01 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I don't want to be rude, but if the 2008.0 is deprecated, simply remove the links. Alternatively, I propose to replace them by a weekly, a one well tested, say three months ago.

The point is when you browse the web, you don't read everything. I had to install a Gentoo on my office laptop, after having installed Gentoo at home some years ago. It appeared to me natural to get the lastest release instead of my old 2006.0 CD. So I went directly to the download pages, read nothing, even if I could check 5' ago there is actually a big warning on the deprecation of 2008.0.

Anyway, I thing the install went good, even if I have problems, they are not expected to be release concern, but video driver concern. I partitionned with GParted live CD, and when on Gentoo 2008.0 liveCD, I openned a konsole, set the root password, su root, and perform the install from there.

poly_poly-man · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject:

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject:

In fact, a LiveCD is already out there, it's SystemRescueCD.

Why don't add a Xorg-Server support to the already existing Gentoo minimal CD.

Also, maybe a collaboration with SystemRescueCD should be a good idea. Why not use their instead of doing 2 differents project that has the same gold, installing and debugging an existing Gentoo box.

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lalebarde · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:39 am Post subject:

One question of concern for me please : is the 2008.0 liveCD "deprecated" just for bugs in the graphic installer ? Other said, if I use this liveCD just as a live CD and perform the install through a Konsole but still with the 2008.0 released tarballs, is it ok ? Or do these tarballs buggy too ?

EDIT : at this point, tarballs looks good.

EDIT : Install finished with KDE. It works great.

ilyatau · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2006 Posts: 45

Maybe my question dublicate somthing, but when will be LiveCD 2009 of Gentoo?
For me it's very important, because I can't spend some hours to install gentoo from minimal cd, and liveCD 2008 make me many problems with my new laptop.
Thank you

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

In fact, it's the best solution to install Gentoo or any Linux versions nowdays

CurtE · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject:

Okay, I may add to the confusion more but clear this up for me.

A few days ago I downloaded a 2008.0-r1. Is that also being removed or is that the update?

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

... and even more confusion? - not sure.
There are now 2009 installCD's in the /ARCH/autobuilds/current-iso/ directory of the Get Gentoo link

I suspect those are good ones.