[sclug] Gentoo

[Christopher West]

Ive been running a gentoo system for about one year now and im no guru 
either and i would say that its an interesting way of running linux. I'm 
dual booting with xp everything run perfectly.
I found that the installation documentation is good its step by step, i got 
it to install first time but be warned that i will take a day to initially 
set up.
The portage system is great if you find that there are any broken emerges 
take a look at the make.conf file there will be use declarations missing. 
ive found that once you have you basic make.conf transfer the info into the 
make.conf.example and rename it make.conf then you have all the setting for 
portage that you could ever need and emerge -av is youre friend.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Neil Haughton <n.a.haughton at bigfoot.com>
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: [sclug] Gentoo
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:10:47 +0000

I was seriously toying with the idea of adding a Gento installation to my 
Mandrake/WinXP machine - just for the challenge really, and out of 
curiosity. The portage idea has a certain appeal.

Anyone tried a dual boot Gentoo setup?

Anyone got any advice to offer me, before I leap in? I'm not a Linux 'guru' 
by any stretch of the imagination.

Neil Haughton
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