Is there anyone know how to boot gentoo live cd distro??? I managed to boot up but it is still in command terminal. I'm supposed whether this gentoo is it the same with other live cd distro like knoppix and LAS. I wish to boot up like them into kde or gnome so that i can troubleshoot my system performance.

Gentoo's 'live cd' is not like Knoppix - terminal is all you get. There *is* a live CD based on Gentoo called Jolix I think - it might do what you want, but I'm not really sure. Never tried it myself.

Thanks for your info. But what is purpose of Gentoo Live cd? And the difference between the live cd and normal distro in Gentoo?

The purpose of Gentoo's live cd is to install Gentoo to your hard disk. Which is why I feel their use of name 'live CD' is somewhat misleading. If by 'live CD' you mean, 'system that boots from CD' then fine, but then every installer is a live CD. I think when most people say 'live CD', they mean 'a complete desktop system booting and working off a CD', and Gentoo is not that.

These are LiveCDs based on Gentoo:

http://navynos.linux.pl/

http://www.jollix.de/

Robin

I'm having trouble getting the CD to boot. It goes into kernel panic after looking at /dev/cdrom, when it tries to find
(from memory I think it was /mnt/livecd/mnt/livecd.gcloop) but cannot find it. This was my first CD burn, so the
fault may be mine. I can mount the CD and ls it, but I don't know why it's crapping out.

I'm on a G3 Powerbook (Codename: Pismo) which is already dual-boot to Linux and MacOS 9. I want to upgrade
the Linux side, which is why I'm doing this.

I'd appreciate any pointers in the right direction for what I'm doing wrong.

Anne.