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On 29 December 2005 17:24, Richard Neill wrote: |
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> 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk |
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> space for sources or CPU power to compile everything |
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> kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that |
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> will get me a fully working system within a few hours? Of course I want |
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> to learn gentoo "properly", but I'd prefer to do this from within a |
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> working system! |
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Look up "stage 3 installation" in the installation manual. BTW, follow the |
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instructions precisely. ;-) |
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> 2)How exactly do gentoo security updates work? Under Mdv, there is a |
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> mailing list with announcements of which RPMs to install. If I have a |
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> binary-based distribution, will it be possible to keep it current? |
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You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually convert your |
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binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that your *main* |
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machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU power. That |
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implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the whole portage |
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tree, including the sources, on that other box and nfs mount it. |
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Alternatively, if that other box has got more CPU power, you can compile the |
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whole thing there, tar everything (except the portage tree) up, boot the |
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laptop from a livecd, get the tarball over and ... well ... untar it. ;-) |
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That's what I usually do with a new box, so I don't have to start from |
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scratch. |
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> 3)Is there a relatively stable fork of gentoo with less frequent |
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> updates, or do I have to stay on the bleeding edge? Of course I want to |
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> get eg the latest kernel, or firefox, but I ran Mandrake Cooker for a |
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> while, with > 100MB of updates per day and all sorts of random breakage! |
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Forget about "updates" or "versions" with gentoo. It's a work in continuous |
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progress. Every day, a little bit (and sometimes a huge bit) gets added, |
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changed, improved. If you stay with stable ebuilds (the default) very little |
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will break. I switched to "~86" (still under testing) early on, and it's |
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still rare that things break. Usually, it's fixed the next day or just hours |
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later. I had far more problems with SuSE. Gentoo is amazing when it comes to |
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stability, performance and hassle-freeness. It is a wee bit heavy on |
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bandwidth, especially if one sits on a modem connection like I do. |
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To answer the question above: I don't know of any such beast. |
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> 4)Does anyone know of a good resource for ex-mandriva users? |
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I don't know about that. |
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Uwe |
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Unix is sexy: |
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who | grep -i blonde | date |
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cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger |
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mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount |
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sleep |
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