Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-08 Thread james
On 7/8/20 1:09 AM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 23:50 -0400, james wrote: I have a proton mail account, the free one, very basic. Proton mail doesn't allow standard IMAP/SMTP, which is relevant given the below. If you want to use a mail client, protonmail is probably a

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-08 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 8 July 2020 03:54:43 BST james wrote: > On 7/7/20 9:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote > > > >> Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will > >> post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 23:50 -0400, james wrote: > I have a proton mail account, the free one, very basic. Proton mail doesn't allow standard IMAP/SMTP, which is relevant given the below. If you want to use a mail client, protonmail is probably a non-starter for you > Will this guide allow

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 10:54 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 18:18 -0400, james wrote: So who do folks recommend for mail server services? If you want to pay someone to host mail for you, I can vouch for Mailfence. I have a proton mail account, the free one, very basic. Inquiring

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 9:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your solution-request. Please let me know what your try and what is wrong with what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 9:20 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your solution-request. Please let me know what your try and what is wrong with what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 18:18 -0400, james wrote: > So who do folks recommend for mail server services? If you want to pay someone to host mail for you, I can vouch for Mailfence. > Time to set up my own mail server (what I prefer to do). Or if you want to go this route, here's the Gentoo-centric

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 01:47:31PM -0400, james wrote > > Good news: I have dozens of potential solutions to what you seek. I will > post a few, that best (potentially) satisfy your solution-request. > Please let me know what your try and what is wrong with what I suggest. > (it helps me). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 6:18 PM, james wrote: OK, sorry for hijacking my own (walter's) post, but this Verizon dying mail server, causes lots of bloated messages and misdirection. I just now figured out that's the bouncing messages source/problem. If those (VERIZON) idiots would just send out a message

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/7/20 3:33 PM, james wrote: On 7/6/20 6:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: �� I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk.� Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc.� I'll settle for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/6/20 6:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/6/20 6:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread james
On 7/6/20 6:02 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Sid Spry
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram > and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want > 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a > textconsole-only install

Re: [gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-07 Thread Michele Alzetta
On an old laptop I tried all the various quick graphical options of installing a Gentoo derivative distro, with the idea that it would then be simple to gentooize it. I tried various distros derived from Gentoo, even quite obscure ones. This didn't work so well. I ended up doing a manual install

[gentoo-user] Quickest/easiest Gentoo install?

2020-07-06 Thread Walter Dnes
I'd like to install Gentoo on an older Lenovo laptop with 3 gigs ram and 75 gigs disk. Is there a "robo-installer script" for this? I want 1 partition (/dev/sda via lilo ) as ext3 and openrc. I'll settle for a textconsole-only install if necessay, and tweak the kernel and build X as necessary.