[plug] gentoo

[Craig Dyke]

Jim Householder wrote:

I hope you enjoy your experience with Gentoo.
I too tried it a while ago and had issues with the setup, but happy to 
say most were
from misunderstanding of how they did things.
My only real complaint was about the time taken to get setup from the getgo.

I currently use another source based distro called SourceMage which I have
found to be most productive.

Anywho ... enjoy

Craig

>
>>
>> Install quickpkg
>> run "time find  /var/db/pkg/ -type d -mindepth 2 -exec quickpkg \\{\\} \
>> \;"
>>
>> Zip the config files (/etc and so on) and then burn them
>> and /usr/portage/packages/* to a dvd.  This then becomes the basis of
>> doing a custom binary install.
>>
>> BillK
>
>
> Thanks for the comments Bill, and Bob too.
>
> I seem to be missing something...  I'm not getting much in the way of 
> system logging.  I emerged syslog-ng.  I'm used to seeing dmesg, 
> syslog, messages, and explanations, but I'm only getting messages and 
> it's not telling me why the network is not starting.
>
> Only thinking of the text version, I emerged emacs.  4 hours later I 
> had xorg, gnome, and who-knows-what-else installed.  But no emacs.  
> Seems libungif-4.1.3 could not be found.  Of 72 packages, it was 71st 
> with emacs last.  Oh well...
>
> <2 hours and a full tummy later>
> Network problem is solved - wrong driver specified in kernel, followed 
> by bad gateway address in /etc/conf.d/net.
>
> libungif is installed and emacs is in progress.
>
> Hopefully the next post will be from the gentoo machine.
>
> Jim
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