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== Known Working Media ==
== Install Media ==
The following live media distributions are known to work for installing on several systems
Most any live or minimal install media iso images can install funtoo.  Funtoo suggests sysrescuecd.  Images may be burned to cd, or loaded on a usb thumb drive by either dd or unetbootin.  Unetbootin has linux, windows, and mac binaries so anyone can install funtoo from live usb media.


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! gui
! gui
! uefi support
! uefi support
! unetbootin live usb support
! unetbootin support
! architecture specific
! architecture specific
! notes
! notes
|-
|-
|Sysrescuecd
|[http://www.sysresccd.org/Download Sysrescuecd]
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
|no
|no
|no
|recommended media
|-
|-
|LFS live cd
|[http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop Ubuntu]
|startx must be run
|yes
|??
|unknown
|probably
|yes
|yes
|yes
|probably
|must download specific architecture
|-
|-
|Ubuntu
|[https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Debian]
|yes
|yes
|??
|unknown
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
|must download specific architecture  
|must download specific architecture  
|-
|-
|Xubuntu
|[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD Fedora]
|yes
|unknown
|yes
|yes
|untested
|-
|[http://wiki.centos.org/Download CentOS]
|yes
|yes
|??
|unknown
|yes
|yes
|yes
|yes
|must download specific architecture
|untested
|-
|-
|Gentoo minimal install
|[https://get.gentoo.org/ Gentoo minimal install]
|no
|no
|??
|unknown
|probably
|probably
|yes
|yes
|
|must download specific architecture
|-
|-
|}
|}
i [[User:Threesixes|Threesixes]] ([[User talk:Threesixes|talk]]) suggest we target top 10 distros live media setups....  http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity  not sure if there is a unetbootin page or not

Revision as of 23:39, December 17, 2014

Install Media

Most any live or minimal install media iso images can install funtoo. Funtoo suggests sysrescuecd. Images may be burned to cd, or loaded on a usb thumb drive by either dd or unetbootin. Unetbootin has linux, windows, and mac binaries so anyone can install funtoo from live usb media.

distro gui uefi support unetbootin support architecture specific notes
Sysrescuecd yes yes no no recommended media
Ubuntu yes unknown yes yes must download specific architecture
Debian yes unknown yes yes must download specific architecture
Fedora yes unknown yes yes untested
CentOS yes unknown yes yes untested
Gentoo minimal install no unknown probably yes must download specific architecture

i Threesixes (talk) suggest we target top 10 distros live media setups.... http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity not sure if there is a unetbootin page or not