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Thufir,
For good or ill, or maybe both good *and* ill!, Gentoo is basically an
experts-only distro.
(And STOP RIGHT THERE, flame-writers -- read the rest first.)
Gentoo gives absolutely *awesome* power, but *This* *Thing* *Is* *Dangerous* --
it is a loaded *and* *cocked* pisto
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
>
> > With the Gentoo install, you are limited to
> > 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment.
>
> There is no such limit, because the Gentoo live CDs include screen.
I d
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote:
Another oopsi!
> # First emerges
emerge sync
> emerge system
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On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote:
> # Make mountpoints and format partitions.
> mkdir /mnt/gentoo
> mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3
> mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo
> mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
> mkswap /dev/hdb2
> swapon
> mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr
> mkreiserfs /dev/hdb
On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> With the Gentoo install, you are limited to
> 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment.
There is no such limit, because the Gentoo live CDs include screen.
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On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [..]
> > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your
> > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as
> > Knoppix.
> [..]
>
> I was hoping for a screen shot t
On May 14, 2005, at 4:33 am, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
I hesitate to proceed before I understand
how Gentoo handles partitions, however. will it bring up a list of
partitions similar to:
1 FAT32
2 ext3
and then I enter "1" to format the first partition, and then similarly
select
On 5/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
> The answer to your specific question is that you will run fdisk, you
> will create the partitions you want at the size you want with the file
> system type you want. There is no set size. there is no script to make
> it happen. It comes out
On 5/13/05, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [..]
> > Thufir,
> >I think the point you may be missing here is that there is
> > NOTHING graphical about the Gentoo installation. It is nothing
> > more than a very carefully crafted se
On 5/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
> Thufir,
>I think the point you may be missing here is that there is
> NOTHING graphical about the Gentoo installation. It is nothing
> more than a very carefully crafted set of text commands.
[..]
ah, thanks for clarifying that. I
On 5/13/05, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [..]
> > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your
> > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as
> > Knoppix.
> [..]
>
> I was hoping for a screen shot
On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
> By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your
> running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as
> Knoppix.
[..]
I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda.
"The Gentoo Installation CDs are boo
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 02:40, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> when you say that Gentoo installs on the partition of my choice, how
> does that happen: with a gui, drop-down menu or what? I don't mind
> formating the fat32/vfat partition to ext3 (or whatever gentoo uses).
> My primary concern is losing data
Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 08:40 schrieb ext THUFIR HAWAT:
> when you say that Gentoo installs on the partition of my choice, how
> does that happen: with a gui, drop-down menu or what?
There is no installer for Gentoo. You boot from a LiveCD and type commands
into a shell. That's how Gentoo is in
On 5/13/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gentoo doesn't ask you what to install anything on. you install
> Gentoo
> on the partition of your choice. You can, in practice, install
> Gentoo on any partition type supported by the installation kernel
> and run it from any partition type
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 00:07, Phil Sexton wrote:
> I notice pfat linux (was that it's name) has disappeared
I was wrong. See:
http://www.phatlinux.com/
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On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Peter. While I know that VFAT permissions are far fewer it
> hadn't occurred to me that you actually couldn't do an install to VFAT
> due to those differences. (Not that I'd ever try, but it's good to
> know.)
There were some distros that w
On 5/12/05, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Gentoo doesn't ask you what to install anything on. you install Gentoo
> > on the partition of your choice. You can, in practice, install Gentoo
> > on any partition type supported by the installation kernel and run it
> >
Mark Knecht wrote:
Gentoo doesn't ask you what to install anything on. you install Gentoo
on the partition of your choice. You can, in practice, install Gentoo
on any partition type supported by the installation kernel and run it
from any partition type supported by your custom kernel.
A minor corr
Gentoo doesn't ask you what to install anything on. you install Gentoo
on the partition of your choice. You can, in practice, install Gentoo
on any partition type supported by the installation kernel and run it
from any partition type supported by your custom kernel.
Hope this helps,
Mark
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