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Article:		Gentoo Linux Reloaded
Subject:		Installation notes...
Date:		2002-10-14 18:34:52
From:		anonymous2

To preface, Gentoo is not for the newbie. I've administered large HP-UX/NCR/AIX systems for an international corporation, and learned several new things while installing. As far as a graphical interface, although one would be nice, the more generalized and "friendly" an installation becomes, the less easy it is to make your own choices. It is undeniably installable; the only reason I've had to reinstall was because I installed WXP after my original Gentoo and lost my partitions. If you are considering trying this distro, be prepared to wait and read a great deal. I've found nothing that would be misleading to someone who's installed some flavor of a Linux system and knew what was going on. Installing Gentoo is like following a new recipe -- you have to read ahead in order to do it properly.

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Installation notes...
2003-10-11 04:05:10 anonymous2 [View]

I agree that the graphical interface is not necessary, I also learned a lot that I didn't know, and once I was done installing, I realized that I could go back and re-install anything at any point in the installation process, emerge handled most everything, kernel rebuild is a snap, I goofed up and forgot to install hotplug and just put the cd back in, chroot, emerge hotplug... wow, easy! Now I think I'm ready to tackle LFS, but why would I want to do that when I have gentoo? I'll never go back to redhat again, that's for sure, my system runs twice as fast now it seems.