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| Thread ID: 51047 | 2004-11-10 06:13:00 | Linux, what can you do with it? | Prescott (11) | Press F1 |
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| 290017 | 2004-11-11 10:34:00 | soon ill have all the time in the world, after exams, no wonder im up soo late | Prescott (11) | ||
| 290018 | 2004-11-11 10:51:00 | Rightoh, I'm onto the new DVD thing (ta Jen and others), hopefully I can slot it in for the weekend. CD it is. I'll post my copy of Yoper, so Yoper might get a head start on Fedora eh Jen ;) Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290019 | 2004-11-11 11:28:00 | Id advise Yoper anyways - Just be nice to it... It is bleading-edge stuff here. Still, its reliable... There's becoming quite a nice repositry of software too. If you cant find an app you want - You can install Portage which is Gentoo's Package Management System and use Portage to get your app!! :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 290020 | 2004-11-11 11:36:00 | Is there a good how to on the Portage installation at the Yoper site Chill? Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290021 | 2004-11-11 18:37:00 | Nope, so I'll write one now: Fire up Kynaptic/Synaptic Scroll down til you find Portage (It may be under "emerge") Tick it and apply changes :-) From there, goto the Gentoo.org website and grab the Gentoo Installation Handbook. You'll wanna look up the part about USE Flags, make.conf, CFLAGS, and thats it :-) Once you've edited /etc/make.conf to suit your current PC, then: emerge appname -pv This will give you a verbose output of what would be installed (including dependancies) to get the application you want. Lets use the latest Gaim for an example: emerge gaim -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-im/gaim-1.0.2 -cjk +crypt -debug -debug -debug -gnutls -nas -nls +perl -silc +spell 4,696 kB Total size of downloads: 4,696 kB So from here we could type: USE="-crypt" emerge gaim -pv This would tell Gaim not to compile with Cryptographic options. Or to simply get started, just: emerge gaim It'll fetch, extract, configure, compile, install and clean up all dependancies for you! Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 290022 | 2004-11-11 19:38:00 | Hmm, ok, I'll have another look in Synaptic for Emerge this time. Did a search for Portage and came up blank. Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 290023 | 2004-11-11 19:42:00 | Oh! Was hoping to catch you Murray. I have the burnt Fedora CD's sitting here all waiting to go in the post, but I'm kinda missing some important info - like where to post them :p You want to check your emails at the addy you gave before - ta muchly :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 290024 | 2004-11-11 20:36:00 | dual booting, where do i start, im sure you guys are doing it now? am i right?. what do i need to do/get in order to dual boot yoper and xp? the selection of os must be easy cos my little bro needs to be able to get in xp. i think ill check the faqs out, but still some suggestions/recommendations would be great righty, ill go do some study, ill check back at lunch time. |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 290025 | 2004-11-11 21:14:00 | > dual booting, where do i start, im sure you guys are doing it now? am i right? . When I started my venture into Linux I dual booted Fedora Core 1 with Win XP, which was fine . Then Core 2 came out and trouble struck . . . there was a problem with Core 2 dual booting and to cut a long story short (you can read about it here ( . pcworld . co . nz/thread . jsp?forum=1&thread=47764&message=275499&q=#275499" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz)) I ended up having to reformat Windows in order to get back into it . I lost quite a few files as I was silly enough not to have done a backup before upgrading . :8} Anyway, what I now use and highly recommend is a hard drive caddy with a dedicated hard drive just for Linux . It does not have to be a large drive so you could use a second hand one or a small one you have spare . I have three hard drives - one fixed drive with my data on it, one for Win XP and various junk and the third currently has just Fedora on it . When I get around to it I will dual boot this drive with other Linux versions to play with . That way if I stuff something up majorly in Linux then my Windows drive won't go down with it (and vice versa) . There are quite a few people here who use this method and it is an option worth considering . |
dudess_on_a_mish (4468) | ||
| 290026 | 2004-11-11 21:36:00 | the question i how do i dual boot :p:D but there is one small problem, i do have a spare hard drive but its only 2gb:( and i think this is too small dont you think? |
Prescott (11) | ||
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