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From: Joachim Blaabjerg <styx@g.o>
To: RYMNAT_ADSL <RYMNAT_ADSL@×××××.es>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installation
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:00:27
Message-Id: 200208131156.59361.styx@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installation by RYMNAT_ADSL
1 On Tuesday 13 August 2002 11:46, RYMNAT_ADSL wrote:
2 > Dear people at Gentoo,
3
4 Hi, and welcome aboard :)
5
6 > Eventhough, the installation could be a little simpler, with at
7 > least, a menu based installation (if not graphical), like, for example,
8 > RedHat5 or so. In addition, things like network card module load, may
9 > be done automatically. If the system detects my ne2k-pci (as it does),
10 > why doesn´t it load the module by itself?. A menu-based ip
11 > configuration, CPU selection (for the -mcpu, -march)... In one word, a
12 > front-end.
13
14 There is work being done on porting the Anaconda installer to Gentoo. I can't
15 remember the URL, but it should be somewhere in the archives.
16
17 > The installation itself is not hard (at least for someone with a
18 > little experience), but with an appropiate front-end, it would be just
19 > incredible.
20 >
21 > Another little thing is a graphical tool which lets you see the
22 > packages installed and those available at Gentoo, install those you
23 > want with just one click (or some of them), de-install them in the same
24 > way, etc.
25
26 Try app-admin/kportagemaster or app-admin/portagemaster.
27
28 Best Regards,

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