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Walter Dnes [mailto:waltdnes@××××××××.org] Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 |
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> Even with that background, my transition to Gentoo wasn't 100% |
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smooth. |
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>If I had tried jumping from Windows direct to Gentoo, without 4+ years |
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>of linux usage, I would've been lost. |
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I think you are assuming that a Gentoo user would leap right in |
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to use all of Gentoo's features, which is not necessarily the case. |
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I've worked on VMS for 20 years (so the command line is not unusual), |
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and done a few years of C programming on Tru64 Unix, and some trivial |
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user admin (before even the shadow idea came along), and all this was |
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more than 10 years ago. I've been on windows for the last 5 years, |
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telneting to a VMS box to do work. |
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I followed the AMD64 installation guide carefully, and the only thing |
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that I fell over on was that the live CD makes the drive it is in |
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the main drive, while after you boot off the hard drive, the CD |
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drives may be in a different order. I thought my drive was broken, |
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and had to manually frig with fstab, which I would have preferred |
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not to do. |
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The guide also implies that if you use genkernel, it will be just |
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like the live CD boot, and either I stuffed that up or its lying. |
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Anyway, at the moment I'm just playing KDE games. |
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I also put the "power ride" badge on my Windows desktop at work. |
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Oh, I also had SUSE briefly on the system, nice graphical installation, |
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reiserfs kept failing fsck spuriously, finally booted, |
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changed the root password, would not boot again, would not let |
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me logon as root. Anyway, did not learn anything. During the Gentoo |
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install I learned heaps. |
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P.S. Setting up GRUB was by far the easiest part. |
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daiajo@×××××××××××.au Contra Valere |
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