On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Sebastián Magrí <sebasma...@gmail.com> wrote: > El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 22:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon escribió: >> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:48:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > > Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to >> > > do all the work by yourself to install it. What you describe is >> > > just the regular update/install process, which is simple enough >> > > as you said. >> > >> > It was very easy for me. The first I came in tough with Gentoo was with >> > the 2007 DVD. I booted, double clicked the installer icon, clicked >> > "next" a few times with checking some tickboxes too, and then emerged -e >> > system and world and the packages I need. >> >> You should have been around in the days when stage1 was still supported. >> >> Now that was fun. For varying definitions of "fun" of course :-) >> > > The installation experience with the traditional method must be > mandatory... That's why I think we are better now that GLI is > deprecated... >
I think my first attempt to install Gentoo was a stage 1, several years ago on a box with a network card not supported by the drivers on the Live CD... and of course the distfiles CD did not have the current versions since I was using a portage snapshot from that day. My printed install guide didn't help because i couldn't google when things didn't work the way it said they should work :) now that was a fun experience :) I, of course, realized it was fruitless and went stage2 instead... and did emerge -e world when it was all up & running on the network. and the rest is history. I don't think I've ever seen the graphical installer for gentoo. I don't have a problem with a simple "click here to have a working gentoo installation", I don't think installing an OS should be an educational experience necessarily, sometimes if you already know how Gentoo works you just want to get it over with. Of course if gentoo stores certain configs in unique places compared to other distros, and the whole portage system in general, having some early exposure could make it easier once it's all up and running, but someone who can read the manual should have no trouble either way. (assuming the installer works)
