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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I |
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>> feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and |
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>> follow what the doc is trying to convey. |
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>> --Joshua Doll |
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> I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it |
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> requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, |
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> especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. |
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I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub |
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was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking |
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(which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive |
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numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected |
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drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some |
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important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster. |
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No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :) |
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