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can you also use the source to install things then? and can you make some sort of installation packages?
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Original von Incubator
can you also use the source to install things then? and can you make some sort of installation packages?
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Original von Mystilleef
Hey, don't argue with me, give it a try first. And then call me a liar. Mystilleef
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Original von erugger66
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Original von Mystilleef
Hey, don't argue with me, give it a try first. And then call me a liar. Mystilleef
I took Mystilleef up on this and installed Gentoo on a test system here at work. I am a real Linux noob, seeing as how I am a CPA by trade, but have delt with computers from my time in college. We have used Linux at work for our mail server for 5 years now and I just started to try to understand how it works so I can take over administration rather than pay someone to do it.
I am running SuSE 8.0 at home and love it, my wife isn't as pleased (can't run the kids games, etc.) I started using SuSE back in August 2002 if I remember correctly.
Back to Gentoo. I just finished the install, with KDE. It's nice to see what a "clean" install of KDE looks like. I still need to tweak it some more and I am learning a lot. The Gentoo community is great and the Forum, also using phpbb, is a wealth of info. The documentation is also great. If you don't mind the time it takes to compile your system, check Gentoo out
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Original von Incubator
well, the reason why I still have second thought about doing this, is because I have no test system to try it on.
If I screw up (and that happens, too often) 70GB of valuable info is gone in a flicker.
I've read the install info but when I came upon the disk partitioning, I froze :/
It ś been way too long since I touched the dos fdisk program and cant afford to try anything out on the only computer I have.
Plus the current partition set up is this:
hda: ntfs (windows)
hdb1: ntfs (massive data storage)
hdb2: linux native
hdb3: linux swap
but for gentoo I need to create a boot partition in the beginning of the first disk right?
and that might be a prob :/
(for me anywhay )
thats why I currently prefer mandrake's easy partitioning. I dont mind using command line for other things, in fact sometimes I prefer it. But I do prefer that system critical things are in that case done for me.
Reason; during my futile attempt to get red hat 9 working, it complained about my ext2 partition where mdk worked on perfectly. It said it crossed that famous 1024 cylinder border.
So I deleted that one and made a new one with the partitioning tool from red hat (in the installation) but it still kept complaining. I installed anywhay and when booting, I ended up with a sccreen full of L 99's
oh, and i didnt get a chance to try SUSE yet
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Original von Incubator
uhm, if i´m correct, if you select the tarball3 for gentoo install you dont have to configure your kernell and select modules manually like that.
(of course you need to know a few names of what programs you want to install)
thats what i understood from the install guide
Dim, correct me if i´m wrong pls
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Original von ntws01
Sounds simple enough, perhaps someone could direct me to a full tutorial for installing Gentoo?
Thanks for the help
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Original von cmbofh
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Original von ntws01
Sounds simple enough, perhaps someone could direct me to a full tutorial for installing Gentoo?
Thanks for the help
That's the one I used (maybe this is even an updated version...):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
It's step-by-step but requires some background knowledge.
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Original von dimitri
It would be nice if questions are posted in the Forum where they belong, so that the Off Topic Forum doesn't become too much Off Topic itself
Dim
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