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I'm planning to install Gentoo Linux and i want to overwrite my current MSWindows because i don't to do multiboot. How do i actually do so that i can install it. |
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I have no experience in installing any Linux Distro. =) |
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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: On Monday 02 June 2008, Ricardo Bevilacqua wrote: |
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> 2008/6/1 Norman Hakim : |
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> > Hi, |
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> > Actually i'm a newbie to Linux world but my final year project requires |
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> > me to use Gentoo Linux as my platform. So can u assist me the easiest way |
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> > to install Gentoo Linux 2007.1 and how to install stage3 as currently my |
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> > pc is running windows xp and i would like to overwrite my windows with |
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> > Gentoo Linux. |
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> > Thank you. |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Norman Hakim |
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> > NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA |
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> Norman, |
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> I believe that's a really good project =). |
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> Let me introduce you to "Gentoo". |
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> Gentoo is (in my opinion) one of the best documented Linux |
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> distribution. You can check the Gentoo Handbook [1], which is a very |
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> good step-by-step guide to install Gentoo on your system. It's |
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> translated into German, English, French, Italian, Polish, Simplified |
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> Chinese and Spanish. Take a look at it, I think that will answer your |
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> question. If you have any other questions after reading the Gentoo |
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> Handbook, we will be glad to answer you. |
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> Regards, |
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> Ricardo Bevilacqua. |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml |
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By the way, you may want to just shrink your MSWindows partition with e.g. |
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gparted LiveCD and then create new partitions to install Gentoo in. This |
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will allow you to multiboot into either OS. A common data partition will |
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allow you access to your data files, music, etc. by both OS too. |
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As Ricardo says, following the handbook is the best way to install Gentoo. |
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Then read some of the documentation for setting up and configuring a desktop, |
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or different services if you want to. Any questions just ask in this M/L, |
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the forums and in IRC. |
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Good luck! |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA |
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