Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-16 Thread Roy Wright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just built a new box (previous one's motherboard fried) and decided to just start from scratch with gentoo ~x86. Tried the 2008.0 beta 1 liveCD but it didn't like my gpu (nvidia 8600GTS) so just did a stage3 install via ssh from another box using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-02 Thread ionut cucu
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:09:27 -0500 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:46:49 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pongracz Istvan pongracz.istvan at gmail.com writes: I've got several boxen that need to be installed so I was hoping to test drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:46:49 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pongracz Istvan pongracz.istvan at gmail.com writes: I've got several boxen that need to be installed so I was hoping to test drive 2008.0 AFAIK the releng team are working on the next release (2008.0) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Neil Walker
Dan Farrell wrote: Install from 2007.0 with interet: - most recent stage3 - most recent portage therefore most recent system Install from 2008.0-beta with internet: - same stage3 - same portage therefore same system net benefit of 2008.0: none.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dan Farrell: net benefit of 2008.0: none. The benefit is that the beta gets tested, and we all move that much closer to a stable 2008.0 release. net drawback of 2008.0: hassle (beta) -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:18:33 +0100 Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell wrote: Install from 2007.0 with interet: - most recent stage3 - most recent portage therefore most recent system Install from 2008.0-beta with internet: - same stage3 - same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2008.0 install media

2008-04-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:05 -0600 darren kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth the Dan Farrell: net benefit of 2008.0: none. The benefit is that the beta gets tested, and we all move that much closer to a stable 2008.0 release. True, I suppose. I tend to be a little draconian with my