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| Thread ID: 51531 | 2004-11-23 08:42:00 | Linux - or OpenBSD or FreeBSD? | JohnD (509) | Press F1 |
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| 295437 | 2004-11-26 03:40:00 | > >ANYBODY could install Gentoo, it just takes a little > longer than most distro's. > > even me? lol :p hehehe :D Prescott the online help files for Gentoo are brilliant, myself and a friend managed to fumble our way through a basic Gentoo installation in an afternoon with lil Linux experience. There was some guess work involved and the second time around it was much smoother but it wasnt exactly difficult. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 295438 | 2004-11-26 03:52:00 | Pete's right, following: [www.gentoo.org Gentoo Installation Handbook[/url] is nice and easy :-) They've covered pretty much everything (Admittedly Ive not done a 2004.3 install). Stage3 installs are easiest, its pretty much just a kernel and boot-loader from there :-) It gets a bit messier when you start wanting gcc-3.4.3, with NPTL from a Stage1 Install ;-) But yeah, Pete is right - Its not _really_ that difficult to do :-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 295439 | 2004-11-26 07:43:00 | Well, I downloaded 2004.3 today & burnt it to a cd, when I came in tonight. I've had alook at the Gentoo installation Handbook ... & I would like to give it a try. I have 8 or 9 gigs partitioned for Linux on my 2nd hard drive (hdb2 & hdb3 from memory) and running Libranet at present, but it would not worry me at all if I was to successfully replace it with Gentoo. All I need is some time and motivation. Tell me, Chill, I could install the basic from the cd I burnt & then get the packages, as I needed them, by download - to save a lot of extraneous downloading? (Should I make a separate posting here or is it alright to continue on this thread). |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 295440 | 2004-11-26 19:51:00 | > Well, I downloaded 2004.3 today & burnt it to a cd, > when I came in tonight. Good man! ;-) > I've had alook at the Gentoo installation Handbook > ... & I would like to give it a try. I have 8 or 9 > gigs partitioned for Linux on my 2nd hard drive (hdb2 > & hdb3 from memory) and running Libranet at present, > but it would not worry me at all if I was to > successfully replace it with Gentoo. Why not Dual-Boot? Take a look at your current boot-loader config and just write it down :-) > All I need is some time and motivation. If you do Stage1, you can set a ton of optimisations and all, but its probably best to just stick with some basic CFLAGS to start with. I would highly recommend a Stage3 Install your first time around. Later on you can then run: emerge -e world This will recompile every application and all dependancies on your system should you want to have some fun with optimisations ;-) > Tell me, Chill, I could install the basic from the cd Yes, and at the end of the Gentoo-Install-Handbook, you get a bash prompt, gcc, glibc and a few other small utils needed to compile programs... As well as Portage :-) > I burnt & then get the packages, as I needed them, by > download - to save a lot of extraneous downloading? > (Should I make a separate posting here or is it > alright to continue on this thread). I'd suggest another thread, leave this one to the BSD's personally.... Basically, Gentoo works by grabbing packages as you need them. If you're doing a stage3 install, there's not much you need after grabbing the LiveCD and the Stage3 tarball. I think you download a kernel, grub, a syslogger and a cron-daemon. If you're on Dial-Up, Good luck ;-) You _can_ run: emerge -pv whatever emerge -f whatever This will basically "fetch" all source code before doind anything else. the -pv will "preview verbose" what you'll be doing. You can then set your USE flags (such as: USE="-mysql" emerge kde) depending on what you're after... The rest is in the handbook, this has just been a bit of a head-start ;-) Feel free to add me to your contact list if you use MSN/ICQ/Jabber Chill. |
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