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Thanks Duncan for your mail - I'll do my best to follow your guidelines |
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On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:36, Duncan wrote: |
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> The biggest suggestion I have is DON'T STOP WITH THE INSTALLATION SECTION |
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> IN THE HANDBOOK! You said you've "toyed" with Gentoo, but I that doesn't |
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> really say how much you know about it. |
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by "toying" I mean I've run through the basic installation several time, both |
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on x86 and ppc machines, mostly with the goal of getting a better |
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understanding of how a Linux distribution is set up. I did not stop with the |
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installation section, but it's clearly the part I know best! |
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Usually, after that, I got to some place were I had a problem and... let |
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Gentoo live were it was while continuing to use my main distro (Mepis Linux |
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for over two years). I did come back from time to time to try things, such as |
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going through an emerge --update --deep world to see if I would manage it. |
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Since I will keep my trusty double-Athlon running (either as main computer or |
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backup server) I'll have plenty of time to setup the Opteron and even a |
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complete crash would not be a big problem at first. |
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So as far as time permits I'll RTFM in details this time. |
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I'd just end with saying that I am neither a progammer, nor a learned system |
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manager, so some subtilities about flags and so escape my understanding. |
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However, being a teacher, I'll be happy toget back to student level and ask |
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questions here when necessary. |
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Regards, |
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Thierry |
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Frank Zappa |
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