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Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> For your first time I'd highly suggest the graphical installer. It'll |
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> save you some time, and while a lot of people correctly point out that |
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> it robs you of a great learning experience, it was the only thing that |
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> enabled a complete newbie (me) to successfully install gentoo. |
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I have to go the complete opposite direction from this. I'd stay away |
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from the graphical installer at least for a releases yet - IMO it isn't |
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a very stable product yet (no offense installer team, just needs more |
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time) and is known to break things on a regular basis. Put in the time, |
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do it by hand, and do it properly, configuring your own kernel and such. |
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It'll be worth it, because by the time you first boot your Gentoo, |
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you'll already know exactly what's in it. |
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