Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Problem with USB-Keyboard at Install

[Lie Ryan]

Duncan wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted
> 5bdc1c8b0908031600p4ba190b0ya560748a6d636126@××××××××××.com, excerpted
> below, on  Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:00:32 -0700:
>
>> Still, installing from some other distro that actually works seems
>> easier and why, by the way, does that other distro support installation
>> for the OP when Gentoo does not? Seems strange to me....
>
> Really, I never did figure out why Gentoo bothers with a LiveCD at all,
> except to be able to say it's eating its own dogfood, as they say.  It's
> perfectly doable to boot one of the other LiveCD versions, do the setup
> thru filesystem format and mount, download the stage tarball to the newly
> setup filesystem, and go from there.  Doing that is one of the options in
> the alternate installation guide, last I looked anyway, and is about what
> I did as I said only in my case I was running Mandrake on other
> partitions on the hard drive, and used it instead of a different LiveCD
> to do the initial partitioning, etc.
>
> That would be far simpler and less hassle than trying to keep a working
> LiveCD, when doing a LiveCD isn't your specialty, as it isn't with
> Gentoo.  And that could be made the installation method covered in the
> main handbook reasonably easily, as well.  But, as I said, there IS a
> degree of integrity to be seen in having and using your own, and I
> suspect that's why Gentoo continues to offer it.

Costello: Hey, Abbott!
Abbot: Yes, Lou?
Costello: I just heard about Linux and I wanted to try installing it.
Abbot: That's great Lou. What distro are you planning for?
Costello: Gentoo. But I know nothing about Linux!!
Abbot: You will in time.
Costello: That's exactly why I am here to see you.
Abbot: Oh?
Costello: I heard that you are a real computer expert.
Abbot: Well, I don't know-
Costello: Yes-sir-ee. You know your stuff. And you're going to train me.
Abbot: Really?
Costello: Uh huh. And I am here for my first lesson.
Abbot: O.K. Lou. What do you want to know?
Costello: I am having problems with installing Gentoo. I heard you need
to use a CD?
Abbot: That's true.
Costello: So, here I am working on my new computer to install Gentoo.
What do I do?
Abbot: Well, first you go to mandriva.com and-
Costello: No, I told you, I want to install Gentoo.
Abbot: I know, you go to mandriva.com-
Costello: Wait a second. I want to install Gentoo. Gentoo. I'm not
interested in Mandriva. So tell me what to do.
Abbot: I did.
Costello: When?
Abbot: When I told you to go to mandriva.com.
Costello: Why should I mandriva.com?
Abbot: To install Gentoo.
Costello: I go to mandriva.com to install Gentoo.
Abbot: Well you don't actually install Mandriva.
Costello: I knew it! So what do I download?
Abbot: Mandriva LiveCD.
Costello: Mandriva what?
Abbot: Mandriva LiveCD.
Costello: Mandriva LiveCD to do what?
Abbot: Install Gentoo.
Costello: You don't have to get rude!
Abbot: No, no, no! That's not what I meant.
Costello: Then say what you mean.
Abbot: To install Gentoo, go to-
Costello: Don't say it, ''mandriva.com!''
Abbot: Then what do you want me to say?
Costello: Look, if I want to install Gentoo, I am willing to
go to gentoo.com, or gentoo.org, but
no one in their right mind downloaded Mandriva to install Gentoo.
Abbot: But that's what you do.
Costello: And you probably go to gentoo.org to install Mandriva, and 
apple.com to install Windows.
Abbot: Don't be ridiculous.
Costello: I am being ridiculous? Well. I think it's about time we
go to apple.com.
Abbot: What are you talking about?
Costello: I'm sick of oranges. Good-bye.

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