Give Gentoo a Try!

[Vaseline]

I've been skimming over it myself..

How exactly does it work in terms of pauses in the install? I'm totally happy to go about installing Gentoo if I can just pop a knoppix cd in when I need to write an essay/answer an email.

Do you just cntrl+c and halt - and Gentoo knows where you were up to next time you boot the floppy or whatever?

[asklepios]

yup that is how you do it. at least that is how i did when i installed from Slack. then when i came back, i mounted the drives again...chroot and start the procedure again.
it will skip all the installed packages and start from where you left. pretty nifty feature i must say

[Vaseline]

I better back some data up..

[allsa8]

Good Yaaaaa slacker !
so when i want to install any other distro that i have'nt installed before , i have to read the manual ?!

back to gentoo .. Trying to install is different from reading the installation guide , what do you mean by text mode ? It can be menu driven as with slackware ! this is easy .

ok .. as starter adviced us to give it a try , i searched the internet for the iso images but i just found one here :

http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/re...686-2004.0.iso


befor downloading this image :
is this just to boot from the cd itself and requires no disk install ? like mandrake move ?

thank you

[mmills]

Now I am looking to download gentoo and give it try, I have a XP Shuttle Board. I found this download, is this the download I need to burn to ISO?

ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/releas...-xp-2004.0.iso

[Hayl]

that is just the packages - for the GRP install if you are doing that.

you need a different ISO to boot the install - choose 1 of these

http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releas...ecd/universal/

[hardcore]

If you have an athlon-xp, then yes.

*Edit*

Forgot that in 2004, things are different. Use link in post above

[mmills]

does the minimal iso come with ftp and dns software or do you have to install that from tar., rpm

[bandwidth_pig]

Gentoo supplies the basic tools needed to do whatever you want. If there is something that you want to have you can just emerge it. For example (I don't recall if it comes with it or not) but if for some reason you wanted lynx to download something not in portage (highly unlikely) you would just:

emerge lynx

And it will install with all dependencies.

[hammer123]

when you do this rather than an rpm, it downloads an ebuild, this is basically a tar.gz with a script for a database and automatic configuration arugments.

[Trogdor]

Originally posted by Vaseline
I've been skimming over it myself..

How exactly does it work in terms of pauses in the install? I'm totally happy to go about installing Gentoo if I can just pop a knoppix cd in when I need to write an essay/answer an email.

Do you just cntrl+c and halt - and Gentoo knows where you were up to next time you boot the floppy or whatever?

You can install Gentoo FROM Knoppix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can use ANY Linux distro (like Knoppix, the Gentoo live cd, etc) to install Gentoo!

[hammer123]

I installed it from redhat 9. When I wanted to work I minimized the terminal where I was installing gentoo and opened up whatever app I wanted. In fact it was minimized most of the time so I could continue doing other stuff.

[Vaseline]

Oh, wow..

I read that you could install from a knoppix CD or whatever, but I kinda thought that'd just be to get your machine booted and then when the install starts, you'd pretty much confined to that.

So, if I boot knoppix, I can install Gentoo in the background, and carry on browsing porn, listening to music, etc..?

I can't understand it when installing from a non-live cd distro like rh9 though, cause wouldn't you be overwriting the filesystem you're working from?

oh.. you probably did it to a different partition.

[DAudioLink@Sch]

I know this is a bit late but, Gentoo is indeed n00b friendly. I tryed Debian first, but it didn't like my eth0 (or my isp didn't like Debian). Gentoo setup the first try, in only 5 days of after school working (most of the time was waiting for stuff to compile) I had a working install with XFree86. The only thing I have to gripe about is my lack of knowlege in regards to Linux, (and that I didn't switch sooner ). I've had a few problems with it, nothing major, or at least nothing out of my leage as a n00b (with some help from the guys in the #justlinux channel on irc.freenode.net).

[blackrax]

Originally posted by mengle
All those crazy characters going across my screen for hours on end were kind of mezmorizing. Much like watching a fire.

you actually sat through the entire install process?