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On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 12:08:12 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 28/08/2017 22:20, mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > |it's not so hard yet, just hard to get by reading it in advance, doing |
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> > it is fairly straight forward. |
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> It only seems like it might be tricky when reading it. |
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> Running Gentoo involves steps that you do on almost no other distro, so |
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> the words on the web page are unfamiliar. |
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> Almost everyone that's done it for the first time in the last 5 years |
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> and reported up says "Gee, that wasn't so hard! A lot easier than I ever |
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> thought it would be!" |
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> It's also very obvious what each step actually did, but you have to do |
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> it yourself once - it's obvious in petrospec. |
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> Welcome to Gentoo-land. May your stay be long and happy and fruitful. |
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> Your next assigned task (to be done sometime in the next year) is to |
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> repeat the whole process on a test rig and do it from a stage 1. Like we |
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> all did 15 years ago. If serious street cred brownie points is what you |
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> are after, that's how you get 'em! |
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Nope. You need to do a stage 1 on nothing newer than a Pentium 3 or |
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equivalent for it to count, run out of compile space on PORTAGE_TMPDIR, |
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reformat and start again. |
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For extra street cred you would of course install ~arch and have to work- |
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around every darn bug you came across by the n'th time you had to start |
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recompiling from scratch, because both gcc and the profile USE flags changed 3 |
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times during the 2 weeks it would invariably take you to finish your install. |
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In between all this pain, you may also discover your MoBo would hard lock |
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every time your mismatched RAM modules started paging over to swap ... O_O |
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but after a hard reboot it would be OK until the next big compile. |
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I understand this to be an endeavour not dissimilar to climbing Everest during |
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an avalanche. |
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PS. Did I mention you would have to do all of the above using a dial-up modem, |
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which would require off-tree modules, because your PC came with a Winmodem? |
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PPS. In case you have never been cursed with using a winmodem, check the 2nd |
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bullet point at the bottom of this page: |
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http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/winmodem.html |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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