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On 3/25/06, Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> >>Either they have a new bootloader or you mean grub. I have used Lilo |
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> >>and now use grub. IMHO, grub is better. |
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> >Yes, I mean grub. I had a small technical difficulty : ) |
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> For me, that would be not being able to type worth a hoot. My sig on |
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> the forums says I can't type good. |
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> >>> |
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> >><snip> |
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> >>I hope some of this makes sense. I have been where you are now and it |
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> >>is a bit . . . . scary. |
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> >Hmm... maybe not scary as much as being assaulted with too many new |
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> >things all at once. It makes it very hard to find where to dip your |
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> >toe into the larger pool of information. |
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> >-- |
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> >========== GCv3.12 ========== |
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> >GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ |
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> >L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ |
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> >V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ |
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> > DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y |
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> >========= END GCv3.12 ======== |
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> Weeeelllll, this Gentoo Linux. I can tell you that once you get Gentoo |
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> up and running, it is awesome. I have used Mandrake and it was OK until |
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> it came time to upgrade. It also didn't teach me much. Installing |
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> Gentoo taught me a lot. It takes time but it is worth it in the end. |
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You think it taught you a lot? You should see how much I've learned from it! |
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> There are also some good folks on here and the forums to help get you |
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> through. Just hope you like to search and read a lot. Forums are a |
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> great place to search. |
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Yeah, I got lots of good comments from others about how great the |
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Gentoo community was/is. |
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> Go here: www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/3196/5/ and read |
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> this section: "4.3. Configuring the kernel" That should help. That is |
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> a old guide for the older kernels but some of it still applies. That |
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> should help you a lot though. |
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Yeah, I did what you told me to do with the make install_whatevers and |
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then rebooted and I got what I think is vanilla X - no GDM, KDM, or |
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anything. It's sorta cool, 'cause they give you an xterm and nothing |
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else, but at the same time I want my KDE back. |
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Anyone know what to do here? init.d says has these things: |
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acpid crypto-loop gpm localmount pwcheck shutdown.sh |
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apmd cupsd halt.sh modules reboot.sh spamd |
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bootmisc depscan.sh hdparm net.eth0 reslisa sshd |
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checkfs distccd hostname net.lo rmnologin syslog-ng |
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checkroot domainname hotplug netmount rsyncd urandom |
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clock esound keymaps nscd runscript.sh vixie-cron |
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coldplug fand lisa numlock samba xdm |
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consolefont functions.sh local portmap sasauthd |
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I tried xdm restart, xdm start, and am about to try xdm stop to see if |
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I can get the normal GDM login screen (which will then start KDE - |
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yay!) However, I'm not sure what to do if that fails. I know that |
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there's a xinit something or other somewhere that I should put |
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startkde in, but I'm not sure where or what to do now. I learned |
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about xinit and startkde a long while ago on Debian when I didn't know |
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that hitting spacebar selects a checkbox. I ended up installing the |
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base Debian system - nothing extra. It was interesting, my first time |
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on Linux with nothing but me and the console. Luckily I managed to |
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beat my way through the problem after about a week. |
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> Hope that helps. Keep your chin up. |
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Yeah, don't worry - I don't stop until it's done. Thanks for your help! |
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-- |
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========== GCv3.12 ========== |
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GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+>++++ P+ |
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L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ |
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V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ |
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DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y |
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========= END GCv3.12 ======== |
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