[plug] gentoo

[WolfBite]

2 quicker ways
a.
Vidalinux (30 min on my machine)
gives a basic gentoo system
then can finetune as I need
b.
New livecd 2005.1 with gui installer
supposed to let you do what you normally can
but with/without gui

Tame? :)

one of the MAIN things I LOVE about gentoo is.

that sofar 95% of ALL installs from source code (no
ebuilds) would work :))
compared to mandrake 5% :((

Love it when you see someone say NO ebuild for
suchandsuch
dload, follow install instructions, wulla :))




> 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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> >
> >
> 
> 
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