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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote: |
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> If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins |
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> had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very |
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> issue. An awesome collection of techies does not gravitate users |
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> to join the ranks of distro users. A (easy) graphical installation |
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> method is a requirement. Gentoo get's tons of bad reviews, |
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> based on the installation process. |
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Personally, I think a graphical installer for Gentoo is a bad idea (yes, |
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including the current one). What I want to see is: |
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1) Boot off of live CD |
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2) ROOT=/mnt/sda1 emerge system |
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3) ROOT=/mnt/sda1 emerge <other packages> |
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4) Reboot without CD |
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Installers are never any good. What you really want is the ability to |
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update your system to correct the fact that it isn't actually there at |
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all. Gentoo doesn't need a graphical installer. Gentoo needs an install |
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process which is as close as possible to maintaining a Gentoo system after |
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installation, because that would be a good introduction to Gentoo. |
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Of course, the initial emerge system would exit the first few times with |
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instructions to configure stuff and try again, in the "fetch restriction" |
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sort of way, but for partition layout and such, which it needs to have |
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configured before it can partition, format, and mount your future root |
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partition to install stuff on. |
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-Daniel |
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