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Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> In any case, the notes as they currently stand are not something I'd |
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> recommend to a new user. They're fine for experienced users looking |
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> for the "short version." When I get them integrated into the handbook |
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> I think it will be an overall improvement and usable for new users. |
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Harry indicated he had been using Gentoo a long time. Harry was |
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looking for "iso" or what I interpreted as easy installation choices. |
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I spend the weekend updated some vintage boxes from around 2010 as the |
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last update. Educational to say the least. distcc is need and a better |
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massive archive of the /distfiles/ as I wasted more time trying to |
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find over versions of things like gnuconfig and such. Other that |
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that, I just removed KDE and updated the portage and @system. I did |
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drop the profile to the simplest version I could and only updated |
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critical codes like bash, python and gcc. Actually, it was very |
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easy and could be "automated" too. Just wait until it's about 8 months |
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old on the snapshot updates and then wait (forever) for a current emerge |
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--sync...... |
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Harry's description of the VM details was unclear |
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so that motivated me to put your instructions up as a reference for |
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Harry to read. I understand it's not finished, but VM installs of Gentoo |
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are interesting to lots of folks to read about, even if they are |
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not quite ready to recommend to a noob. Harry is not a noob, probably just |
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busy and a bit gentoo_lazy like many of us. I remember Harry and he |
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seemed 'confident' with gentoo before...... |
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I agree with all you have said, and it sounds good; particularly the |
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part on keeping openrc or systemd choices simple to understand and follow |
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regardless of the choice a user makes. This duality (systemd and openrc) |
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is keenly interesting at this time in linux evolution and Gentoo is |
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uniquely strong in this consternation dichotomy. |
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Your plans do sound very attractive. I'm ultimately a believer in that |
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we need to have a matrix of installation options based on refinement |
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of the those earlier 'PreQualifying Questions' I posted. I think I'm |
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going to purse that, so that many different installation semantics |
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for gentoo and gentoo derivatives close to the tree are available for |
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all to enjoy. There are other works progressing on installation semantics |
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and for me, this is all very exciting. I shall await your postings |
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for further testing. Are you going to roll out some "notes" on putting |
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raid-1::btrfs onto HD? Or just the VM install? |
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I think the more different ways folks approach installing Gentoo, the better |
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and it is quite educational to look at the different approaches in the |
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various install semantics for gentoo. I'm personally looking forward to the |
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'stage-4' offerings and have been playing around myself with clonezilla [1]. |
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I, and many others certainly do appreciate your work and explanations |
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and perspective on installing gentoo. I do agree that genkernel is dated too. |
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James |
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[1] http://clonezilla.org/ |
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