[sclug] Re: sclug Digest, Vol 3, Issue 16

[Neil Haughton]

PMFBI,

I tried Gentoo (1.4, I think) a few months ago alongside my XP/Mandrake 
installations. I used a Gentoo iso from a cover disk which got me as far 
as downloading and compiling a basic system into a new partition. The 
trouble was that I couldn't get any further - I never did manage to 
start it up properly, and in the end I gave up. Pity, because the 
portage idea appealed.

Neil Haughton

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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] Questions, questions....
> From:
> Keith Edmunds <keith at midnighthax.com>
> Date:
> Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:29:43 +0000
> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
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>That's a fair comment. You do build from scratch, although these days
>you can download a CD with some prebuilt binaries on it (but that rather
>defeats the purpose of Gentoo in my mind). However, you do learn a lot
>about how the system is put together. If you haven't tried Gentoo, may I
>suggest you take a look at a few of the pages of the installation
>handbook at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1 -
>you'll see that the documentation is well-written, and the task is
>perhaps not quite as daunting as you might think. If you can download
>an ISO file and burn it to a CD, and you have a broadband connection,
>it's worth a try.
>
>I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but I've used quite a few linux
>distros since 1991, and this is the best one for me.
>
>Keith
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