[Sussex]login/logout/reboot/shutdown question (Gentoo)?

[Stephen Williams]

John,

Have you considered SUSE for an "out of the box" trouble-free distro?
On-line updates all very easy etc. etc.

Otherwise I'd stick with Gentoo - it's great once you get the hang of
it, but I agree that the install is distinctly non-trivial.

Steve Williams.



On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:02, John D. wrote:



> Hi list,
> 
> Disaster struck, because at stupid Oclock this morning, I'd managed to really 
> screw it up. For the life of me, I don't know what I did wrong, but the 
> bugger wouldn't boot, then after various go's at changing things it booted, 
> then it wouldn't fire up a GUI etc etc etc
> 
> Only what I should have expected really. That's what happens when you get 
> meddlers like me who don't really know what the hell they're doing - just 
> messing around changing things on a hit or miss basis.
> 
> Anyway, to cut a short story even shorter, for the moment, I've put knoppix on 
> my hard drive so I've got something, then i can go back to "square one" and 
> re-install again ? dunno, I could see if I can do something with this? as the 
> object of the exercise is not to end up going for a particular distro "per 
> se", but to end up with a distro that isn't one of them on the endless every 
> 6 months download/buy/obtain the latest version. That's the round about I 
> wanted to get off.
> 
> I must have missed something in the first place as I checked everything that I 
> could think of and changed as many settings etc as I could find ideas and 
> suggestions for (jesus, doesn't gentoo forums get bloody boring after about 6 
> hours of searching, reading and meddling! :( )
> 
> So, right now, square one is as good a place as any to recommence!
> 
> What would the straw poll opinion be. Re-install gentoo? or try learning how 
> to modify Knoppix into normal debian? 
> 
> As  a mediocre system is better than no system as all !
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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