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I know how that is.. I went ahead and reinstalled after a few months of running gentoo (and me making a big mess... there is no system I cant crash). Much getter this time around. Whenever I know I am going to have a weekend away from my computer, I have it recompile everything (takes about two days on a p3 700 w/786 megs of ram). =20 I agree on not using it for production, I am using it only as a desktop and to learn. I dont like rpm because I never took the time to understand how it works and whatnot, emerge is much easier. I just never got into debian much, tried it at 2.2, but needed usb support, so I went for something else. =20 if you need some help getting gentoo installed (as far as the first part of the process goes, like the kernel and whatnot) bring it to the install fest. It takes to long to go over everything. Or just ask here :) --mat On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:21, Cleve Allison wrote: > emerge life ;) >=20 > Well Mat.......I blew up gentoo! > Actually it was probably something minor but as it was the first install=20 > that I got to work correctly I figured I might as well just reinstall for= =20 > the practice...umm, was that convincing? <G> >=20 > I threw Libranet 2.7 Classic on for the time being and around August=20 > 7.....or as soon as I can find a mirror that isn't clogged up, I will be=20 > downloading the 1.4 non-release candidate and doing it all over again. >=20 > rpm sucks......apt is really good......emerge ROCKS!!!! provided you hav= e=20 > the time. Actually I would use RedHat Advanced Server for most productio= n=20 > business needs (of course the fact that someone else is paying for it=20 > helps!) But for my desktop I am leaning wayyy over toward Gentoo. I've=20 > had a much easier time with both apt and emerge than with rpm. >=20 > Of course the fact that I am an uber-newbie at all this would dictate the= =20 > my opinion should be taken with a grain of salt. >=20 > I was well on the way to having a nice gentoo box too......igal, bluefish= ,=20 > mozilla (anyone have a better suggestion? dilla, maybe? I want something=20 > fast and only need a browser) > gaim, evolution, eterm, xv, fbgrab, vlc........emerging anything and=20 > everything that caught my eye; when you know that you will be starting a= ll=20 > over again it is easy to be like a kid in a candy store. >=20 > Cleve >=20 >=20 >=20 > At 06:46 PM 7/20/2003, you wrote: > >emerge <PACKAGENAME> ... thats what could be easier :) > > > >I'll burn some knoppix cds, for testing. I will also bring a few > >superrescue cds, and old copy of debian 3.0, debian 2.2 (also old), > >redhat 9, mandrake 9, mandrake 8.1, slackware 8.1, qnx 6.2.1, and > >anything else anyone thinks we might need (let me know). > >I'll also try to be there at 3, maybe earlier (driving from lafayette) > > > >--mat > > > > > >On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:52, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > > > Yup I got the debmirror script from sourceforge. and its still > > > downloading ;). > > > Now i know why people love debian package distribution. > > > > > > apt-get install apt-mirror > > > could life be more simpler. I had debian on my > > > desktop 5 months back but couldn't configure x. switched to > > > Redhat+Ximian and i absolutely love it. still i want to get x to > > > work under debian. Now I am looking into how i can install debian wit= h > > > redhat as base. > > > > > > karthik > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, I used that script too and it worked great. I was not=20 > > interested in Spark architecture and deleted all the arch2 stuff. The=20 > > only problem with it is that debmirror is in the unstable branch. It=20 > > forced unstable upgrades of Perl and lib6c! This did not mater much on= =20 > > the first box I tried it on, which was a simple text only 180MHz Cyrix=20 > > thing, but it is not a good thing to do to a "nice" computer with a ful= l=20 > > X and all. The package called perlapi is particularly difficult and is= =20 > > not always available. > > > > > > > > Wait a minute. Have you gotten the debmirror package? The rsync > > > > options in the script are just fine as they are, but it won't work > > > > without debmirror, which is designed for partial mirroring: > > > > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/debmirror.html > > > > > > > > I pulled the unstable dependencies by hand so as not to migrate the= =20 > > rest of the system to unstable. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --=-/UBQ8XkNJ8/UtZYxHMHi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/GzxLadbUG229XJoRAmZBAJ95FiOLtCu+/BTuVqE6RHkXnmKb+ACZAcvE /2CFt61lZZw/4P/EFCp4Bqg= =q8NO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/UBQ8XkNJ8/UtZYxHMHi--
