Installing Gentoo WAS: RE: [Sussex] Hello from an new list member - a bit about me

[Gareth Ablett]

Ok so some of the luck wishing might of paid of but I got back about 8
last night so didn't get very far as you can imagine.
What I have is the CD issue of Linux format that has the stage1 install
plus a load of packages, so I started going through the install
documents and got to the download portage, no this isn't a nice thing on
56k with 2 hr cut off. So the aim for today while at work is get the
files for portage and burn them on a cd. (Any ideas where??).

But so far so good tbh it's not been that hard to get where I have.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Austin [mailto:tony at gigaday.com]
> Sent: 13 October 2003 7:43 pm
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: RE: [Sussex] Hello from an new list member - a bit about me
> 
> 
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Wish me luck I'm putting Gentoo on for the first time tonight. Any
> > things or comments I should know before hand.
> >
> 
> If your hard disk ever had Windows on it make sure that you
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda ...
> 
> or you will get some strange problems trying to mount /boot
> 
> I dd the whole drive just for good luck to find any bad blocks, you
might
> not want to do this if you have data on it of course.
> 
> I have also decided to mirror the disks on all my machines in future -
> which isn't too hard after the first time or expensive.  You could
> probably retro fit if you wanted.
> 
> > Thanks
> >
> > Gareth Ablett
> > Systems Developer
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
> http://www.gigaday.com
> tony at gigaday.com
> 
> 
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