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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 14 June 2009 13:02:50 AG wrote: |
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>> Hi all |
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>> Thanks for the responses to my earlier query regarding co-location of |
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>> Debian and Gentoo on the same HDD. |
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>> I still have a few questions regarding an installation before I take the |
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>> plunge: |
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>> (1) Looking through the background docs, it occurs to me that if I |
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>> wanted to install Gentoo on my system, I would need access to a second |
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>> machine that is running all of the on-line docs that guide one through |
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>> the installation process. Is this correct? If not, how does one refer |
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>> to the (seemingly quite comprehensive) guidelines whilst in the middle |
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>> of an installation? |
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> With links or link2 or lynx - it's on the stage 3. |
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> Get network up and running, view docs in text mode |
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It looks like an installation in a chroot space on my current machine |
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will be the way I'll go on this one. If I can find the parts, I might |
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even go so far as patching together an older box and dedicating it to |
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the great take-on Gentoo project! In which case, this would be an |
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interesting route to pursue. But, for now, I'm likely to go the chroot way. |
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>> (2) When Gentoo installs its libraries, does this duplicate the |
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>> libraries already on my machine? For instance - if I have OOo and KDE |
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>> and Xfce4 loaded as part of my Debian Squeeze system, will Gentoo also |
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>> install its own version of OOo, KDE and Xfce4 alongside the Deb files? |
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>> I was thinking that this would have a number of implications in terms of |
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>> space and (potentially) in how the drive is partitioned for the Gentoo |
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>> installation ... unless I'm missing the point? |
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> Yes. You have two complete operating systems, and they share very little, if |
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> anything. Don't try and be tempted to share binaries - that way does madness |
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> lie. |
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Thanks for the heads' up! I'm beginning to get a clearer picture of how |
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this would actually work now. |
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>> (3) What differences would I likely experience between running my |
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>> Debian installation and the Gentoo installation? |
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> That's not a question that anyone except you can answer - it's like asking me |
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> what different experience will you have between your ex-wife and current |
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> girlfriend. I have no idea, nor any way to find out. |
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Interesting analogy, but your point is taken. It was a bit of an unfair |
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question really. |
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> They will be different, that much is true. Gentoo will work the way you set it |
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> up, I can't even warn you about sudo instead of su a la Ubuntu as Gentoo let's |
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> you do it either way. If you use Gnome, you will get Gnome's default theme (a |
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> blue one?) instead of say Ubuntu's Human theme. Changing that is a simple |
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> emerge and a few mouse clicks. |
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I don't know *buntu. I'm on Squeeze (testing) and am having a good time |
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with it. After Slackware's rock-climbing experience of system |
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maintenance, I feel quite spoilt having a tool like apt at my |
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fingertips. Debian does have some interesting policy implementations |
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with renaming Firefox, etc., but these are minor and aside from my |
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inclination to call apps by their given name there is no inconvenience. |
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> What you will do is spend an insane amount of time trying to figure out what a |
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> certain USE flag actually does an if you want it. Debian doesn't give you that |
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> choice. |
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Is this an example of that infinite adaptability of Gentoo as a metadistro? |
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Thanks. |
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