On November 19, 2004 10:59 am, Shawn wrote: > I saw the machine that Jason was trying his first install on. I'm not > surprised it took a long while.... <grins> > > I think we "Gentoo-ers" need to be a little careful when dealing with > people who are having problems installing. I don't say this because of any > comments made, but rather one that hasn't been yet... It might be me, but > I am convinced that you do not really succeed with Gentoo until your third > or fourth install of it. If you already have a "low-level" background to > understand all the configs, then this may not be true, but for the rest of > us it'll take that many tries until you start to fully understand the > system and learn what NOT to do.
Apologies if I came across rude, it was unintended. Gentoo is definately hard to install the first couple of times, especially if you don't have a really good grasp on certtain concepts. Thats why I said in another message Im excited about the automated installer they're working on. I think if people can have an easy installer that does a stage 3 in < an hour then uses that as a platform to nicely [ie in the background] compile things as they go, more people would give it a shot. Then those that prefer the hard way can still do it from a Knoppix CD. <snip> Yay I remembered to kill the footer :D Nick _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
