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Cocoy Dayao wrote: |
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> my style has always been to get the minimal installer. chroot, install |
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> kernel to my specs then boot to hard drive, then start building it to |
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> how i want it built. |
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> the handbook is pretty specific and straight-forward. one just has to |
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> follow it. i've done N installs over the years and i still turn to the |
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> handbook, just to keep track. |
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> anyway. if people find the installer difficult.... maybe gentoo isn't |
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> for them. |
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> On 02 5, 09, at 7:01 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:. |
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>>>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a |
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>>>> different manner to the way the thing will be used. |
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>>> Because installation is boring. The easier it is, the better. |
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>> wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots |
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>> away. Nobody |
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>> needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu). |
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> yes, installation is VERY boring. that's part of the compromise, i guess. |
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> Cocoy |
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> www.twitter.com/cocoy |
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> "People who are really serious about software should make their own |
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> hardware" -- Alan Kay |
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There are certain situations where the "step-by-step" installer isn't |
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adequate. For instance, when I was installing gentoo on my G4, it was |
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straight forward and easy, but when I decided to do a minimal install on |
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my Everex laptop, I needed to use initrd, which I previoiusly had no |
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experience with and the Gentoo handbook didn't mention. Granted, it |
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eventually worked, but I would be hesitent to say that there was |
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adequate documentation on it. |
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