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Roy Wright wrote: |
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> Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> writes: |
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>>> Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: |
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>>>> Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer |
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>>> What the heck is a "Windows Installer"? |
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>>> *SCNR* |
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>> Thirty five reboots and several hours |
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> Sorry, can't resist as I am currently setting up another gentoo box. |
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> A few reboots are kind of expected during a normal gentoo install. |
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> 1) after following directions need to reboot into your new system. |
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> 2) after updating gcc to the latest and recompiling the system. |
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> 3) after finding stupid oversight in fstab (replace ROOT,BOOT,SWAP |
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> with real devices - embarrassed that I missed that one) |
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> 4) while installing X and find that kernel has nvidia FB enabled. |
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> 5) while installing kde-meta and find that kernel doesn't have HWMON |
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> enabled. |
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> Admittedly #3 was oversight and the last two are optional but serve as |
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> an example that you probably will not get your kernel config right the |
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> first time. |
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> As for the hours to set up, if you include compile time for X and KDE, |
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> several hours starts to look really optimistic for a BE-2400, even |
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> when using distcc to a OC (3GHz) Q9300. LEt's face it, it's a two day |
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> job to install gentoo desktop. |
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> The time savings come later, like trying to get HD Audio over HDMI (at |
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> least that's my hope). Using this real world example, I originally |
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> tried kubuntu 8.10 but that didn't have alsa 0.18 (it had 0.17 while |
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> gentoo ~x86 has 0.19), so had to use two different package management |
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> systems (dpkg and apt) to get their toolchain installed, then used a |
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> third package to try to build alsa, which naturally failed. Instead |
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> of trying to hack around with their inconsistent system, I said time |
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> for gentoo... |
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> Have fun, |
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> Roy |
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This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD, |
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boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it |
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install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL |
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your software is already installed. Dang that was cool. It doesn't run |
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as fast as Gentoo but if you want a Linux install in a hurry, that is |
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one way to get it. Then you can use Mandrake to do your Gentoo |
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install. chroot works wonderfully. Run into a problem, just go to a |
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browser and search the forums etc to get help. |
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All this beats winders hands down. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. Can anyone tell I hate winders? Is it obvious? LOL |
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