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Why do the build .iso and .tbz2 files sometimes have different -r (revision) numbers?

April 26, 2017build different files Numbers revision

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Why do the build .iso and .tbz2 files sometimes have different -r (revision) numbers?

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The .tbz2 minimal-system tarball only needs to be revised when there have been significant changes to the core Gentoo Linux system (such as baselayout changes, or a new profile), and as such .tbz2 updates are relatively rare. The .iso file tends to get updated whenever we discover that somebody has hardware that won’t boot from our .iso. Since new kernel modules and patches are constantly being generated, this situation probably won’t stabilise anytime soon. I have a Sony Super-Slim VAIO laptop, and the Gentoo Linux CD is having problems finding my PCMCIA ATAPI CD-ROM. Make sure the second IDE port is set to CDROM (it unsets itself if the device isn’t attached on boot) then do the following at the isolinux boot: prompt: Code listing 2.1 boot: rescue ide2=0x180,0x386 If you are using a 1.0_rc5 or earlier boot CD, apart from thinking about downloading the latest iso, type gentoo instead of rescue, above.