[Klug-general] Gentoo for the first time.

Michael E. Rentell michael.rentell at ntlworld.com
Fri Nov 12 17:15:11 UTC 2010


If only one knew how to do that when running a live gentoo shell. But 
nano was available although I was unaware of it at the time.

It seems to work.

MikeR

On 12/11/10 10:48, J D Freeman wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:51:13PM -0600, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
>> G'day all,
>> Linux Format this month has a tutorial on Gentoo. Oh good I thought -
>> I've got an old x86 PC lying around doing nothing so I thought I'd give
>> it a whirl to keep me awake in the afternoons. All part of the
>> self-improvement process.
>>
>> All has gone very well until I read the line:
>>
>> Open /etc/make.conf and set the following for the USE line:
>>
>> USE="-gtk -gnome qt4 kde dvd alsa cdr"
>>
>> Save and exit,....
>>
>> Ha, how do you do that when the install system does not respond to vi,
>> ed or emacs?
>>
>> Presumably an editor is needed to play with the file make.conf.
>>
>> Am I missing something here?
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> Would the logical conclusion not be to first do the gentoo equivilant of
> apt-get install vi ?
>
> J
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