Hey Abbott, I shoulda left a message. Sorry. Me and Mat were there until about 11:45am. Where were you, sleepyhade? Agreed on the rescue disk, bootstrap yoself into Linuxness.
Later, John Hebert --- abbott mujica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the only thing that sucks about gentoo is that it > requires 64mb ram and that is gay... heh well its > cool cuz its source code based but my machine doesnt > run on any distro... thats right i have completed > the QueefBox its mah baby mommas mommas.. well you > get the idea i made it from a rescue floppy... if > someone wants to learn linux start with a rescue and > a couple of packages (lilo.tar.gz and rpm.tar.gz) > and there ya go mount your floppy to like /dev/hdx > fix ya /proc and youve got it youve got it bad bah > where are you john its may 11 and you left me! well > guess what i got a pII machine with 64 mb ram and > its gonna run some sort of linux so you better get > yo %^^&R*([EMAIL PROTECTED]& over here! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 21:34:42 -0700 (PDT) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Who is running Gentoo Linux? was Re: > [brlug-general] good tutorial for Linux newbies > > > > --- Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Speaking of gentoo, has anyone here tried it? > I've > > > been thinking about it > > > myself. > > > > I'm using Gentoo1.1a on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX390P > laptop > > and it works great. I like the minimal install and > the > > amount of control over the configuration. Because > > Gentoo is source code based, you will have to > download > > and compile most every piece of software, unless > you > > go with one of the pre-builds. You will have to > > compile a kernel to complete the install. > > > > I preferred compiling everything myself, because > it > > gave me a much better idea what was going on with > my > > machine. The install doc is excellent. As I > mentioned > > to Tim Fournet the other day in #brlug, its kinda > like > > a quick and dirty Linux From Scratch. > > > > Be warned that it is a very new Linux distribution > and > > they are fixing bugs and security holes and > releasing > > updates fairly often right now. But I think it is > a > > very interesting distribution that is worth > checking > > out. > > > > Good luck, and let me know if you have any other > > questions! > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > > http://launch.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -- > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org > > > Powered by Outblaze > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
