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On 20/4/21 4:14 am, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 210419 Roy Bamford wrote: |
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>> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. |
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> You beat me by 6 mth . I had recently built my 2nd machine |
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> & had been using Mandrake in the 1st, but they were slow with their release. |
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> I tried Suse + Slackware, but couldn't get them set up properly, |
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> so I thought I might as well try that new thing people were talking about. |
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> I followed the install instructions faithfully, booted |
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> & found myself with a working version of Gentoo ! I've never looked back. |
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>> A number of coincidences gave rise to my original liveCD turning up |
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>> when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot |
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>> just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives. |
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>> I just had to try it out. |
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> I still have the original CDs for Mandrake from 2000, my 1st Linux, |
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> but I've never tried installing them again anywhere. |
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I am a little earlier with gentoo - but unfortunately I don't have any |
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media/machines from that era - great project! I started with Redhat 4.0 |
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sometime in the late 90's. |
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BillK |
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On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 19:16, gentoo-user-request@g.o wrote: |
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> gentoo-user -- confirmation of subscription -- request 939282 |
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