On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 05:51:10 -0500, Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OH MY GOD!!!! I'm emering Gnome.....well I say I'm doing it but I > kicked it off last night at about 9:30pm and its still rocking and > rollin. > Wish I had used Window Maker instead now. > Btw, if I went insane and wanted to try Gnome, KDE and Window > Maker....would I simply emerge them all ......editing the make.conf file > as needed and then configure the startup scripts to launch whichever > environment I wished to get into? Yup. Since Gentoo is compiling everything, you really want a fast box and broadband to do this with. :) > I realize this kind of defeats the purpose of building a system with JUST > want you want to use but at this point I'm still in the "install and play > until I break it and start all over cycle". Of course, I need to re-read > this but I think I remember seeing that I can use portage to back this > stuff out and start all over again, can't I? Yup. 'emerge unmerge appname' > I think I may end up purchasing one of the Linux friendly "Ghosting" > apps. Buy? See http://www.partimage.org. ;) There are other good ones out there as well. Poke around on freshmeat.net for 'backup' or something like that. > It would be nice to set up my own Damn Small Linux or Knoppix CD's just > to do imaging and/or disaster recovery restoration. I think Morphix > might make this relatively easy because you can just load any extras as > modules.......has anyone done this yet? Not yet, but I see the need for such special purpose Knoppix CDs. My wife is the network admin for the Ascension Parish Public Library system and currently uses Knoppix and uses partimage to make disk images of Windoze boxes and copy them to a Windoze network share via samba. She would like a Knoppix CD that mounts this windoze share at boot and possibly just prompts her for the info needed. Thanks for the heads up about Morphix! John Hebert > At 11:06 PM 7/6/2003, you wrote: >> If X takes a while you will have to be even more patient for KDE. >> >> I normally run Window Maker but I use many KDE apps like Konqueror and >> Kate so >> I have to emerge it anyway. Window Maker is a quick emerge iff you want >> to >> get going quickly and worry about the rest later. >> >> For what I have read in many places Gentoo has taken quite a popularity >> although is a tough beast to tame. I guess that iss probably the >> reason. >> >> Take care, >> >> Alvaro Zuniga >> >> On Sunday 06 July 2003 05:52 pm, Cleve Allison wrote: >> > emerging xfree as I type this......takes a while, but from the sound >> of it >> > ....its going to be worth it. >> > >> > At 05:45 PM 7/6/2003, you wrote: >> > >I love gentoo... >> > > >> > >--mat >> > > >> > >On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 14:39, Cleve Allison wrote: >> > > > So just exactly how many of us have Gentoo loaded? >> > > > Cleve >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > General mailing list >> > > > [email protected] >> > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > General mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com
