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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:00:26PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx typed:
> > Can you build Gentoo on a machine currently NOT running Linux?
> 
> Yes, you can boot Gentoo from a live-cd, you extract a "temporary" 
> Gentoo-system to your harddisk, chroot into it and start recompiling from 
> there.  
 
This comes down to a difference of opinion. In my view, a machine
booted from a (Linux) live-cd IS running Linux.
You can do the same thing on FreeBSD, but I really don't see the point.

> GH
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