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Gentoo Linux Reloaded | |
| Subject: | Installation notes... | |
| Date: | 2002-10-14 18:34:52 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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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.
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2002-11-03 08:10:54 anonymous2 [View]
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2003-12-28 04:01:15 anonymous2 [View]
I have even installed gentoo on a remote pc via ssh. I would like to see this done on another distro with the same ease as gentoo. No point and click here.
Gentoo rocks, but you gotta read your stuff! Gentoo a breath of fresh air if you ask me.
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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.
People who claim to have failed installing Gentoo because of bad documentation surely have not read ahead.
I have installed Gentoo at least five times (on four different computers). I have not failed on installing Gentoo so far: the one re-install was due to me doing something stupid in fdisk, sometime after installing the OS.