I'm not a developer ... and I'm not in California ... but I am a Gentoo bigot and I'm certainly willing to help out ... as are most Gentoo users/developers. The documentation and forums are excellent, as are the IRC channels.
As far as installation is concerned, the complexity pretty much depends on whether you want to dual-boot with some other OS and whether or not you have a floppy disk drive :). If you don't want to dual-boot and you have a floppy, you can do the whole install (stage1 or stage3) from shell scripts on the floppy and just sit and watch. It gets a little trickier if you only have a CD; you have to boot the install CD with the "docache" option, then unmount it, load your install scripts from a CD, then put the install CD back in to copy the stage3 tarball and Portage snapshot. If you have two CD drives, it gets simple again :). The most complex case is if you want to preserve an existing OS. First, you have to back it up, so if you nuke it, you can restore it. Then you have to move partitions around, etc. But once you've got the hard drive partitioned the way you want it, everything else is automatable. Mark S Petrovic wrote: >Good day. > >I am about to embark on a serious project and I am considering Gentoo >as the platform. My luck with installation, on which I've spent several >solid days, thus far has been mixed, and I'm willing to hold off believing >it's not just me. I suspect Gentoo works, but thus far just not for me. >But I see the promise it holds. > >Is there a principal Gentoo developer in Northern or Southern California >(preferred) to whom I can pay a visit to gain a deeper understanding of >who the Gentoo team is, what they are trying to accomplish, and how? > >Thanks. > >Mark > >-- >Research and Development >EarthLink, Inc. >Pasadena, CA > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
