On Friday 02 January 2004 16:37, Mac Intyre, Steven wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there possible a GUI install interface for Gentoo - similar to > Mandrake.
no, and I hope, that there will be never one. genflags/genkernel and the rest of this crap is newbie-friendly and non-working enough. A graphic interface would inhibit me, you and everybody to install gentoo the way, I, you and everybody wants it. Today you should, but have not to follow the steps in the installation documentation, but if you have a good reason not to do so, you can throw the documentation in the bin and do it your way. Great. With a graphical interface, this would not be possible. If I need a special version of a packet, I can edit everything I need, and throw the funniest options at portage. How would I do that with a graphical interface? > > I have tried to install as per directions ... but got lost. > > Oh ... also Im new :) <assholemode> If you are not able to follow the simple steps of the installation documentation, than you should not use gentoo at all. Stay at Mandrake and learn some more. Mandrake is a great distri for starters and for advanced users. If you are not a victim of the rpm-hell, you should definetly stay a little longer there. On www.gentoo.org is a remark about the intended users of gentoo. Newbies are not mentioned. Not because someone does not like newbies, but gentoo is not a newbie friendly distribution. There are a lot of more choices how you want to destruct your system than in Mandrake&SuSE together. If you want to realy learn about linux, have a look at slackware. If you can master a slackware, adjusted to your needs and wishes, gentoo is laughable simple. But if you are a fresh Mandrake-Linux-user gentoo has so much hidden traps, that you should definetly stay a little longer at your 'home distribution'. Here are enough newbies on this list, people that have started with mandrake/lycoris/lindows shortly before and think that gentoo would be a great next step. No, it is not. For lycoris/lindows&co users, it would be a logical step to switch to a 'real' distribution first, before they waste a lot of time with gentoo. People that started with Mandrake&SuSE&co some weeks/month ago should stay there for some more time and test a distribution which does not hold their hands after that first, like debian or slackware. This distris are cool to really learn about linux. After that, gentoo with its special cases is not a problem anymore. In fact, for a trained slackware or debian user, gentoo is almost braindead simple. <assholemodeoff> If you still want to install gentoo, try to understand, where and why you get lost. This will help you a lot to master that problem. If you can not figure out the 'why', don't hesitate and ask. All my ranting above could be destilled to this: "gentoo is a nice distrie, but not for newbies, because of some nasty traps and a lot of options-think about it, before you waste your time." But if you still want to install gentoo, welcome. Nobody will harm you for any reasonable questions (and even the stupid ones are almost everytime excused). Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
