-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 August 2003 23:51, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: > I just purchased a copy of Gentoo Linux 1.4 to replace Red Hat 9.0. I have > been using Linux off and on for a year now but the Red Hat distro could not > convince me to switch over to Linux full time. Thus, I ran Windows and I > used SSH secure shell to access my Unix accounts.
Welcome, and congratulations on your excellent decision :) > First question. My notebook has a duel boot partition running both Windows > XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9.0. Will I be able to install Gentoo right over > the Red Hat partition? Honestly, I never plan to use Red Hat again. I > will definately not miss their surveys to keep my membership current. Yup. I haven't read the install docs in a long time, but the partition layout described are purely a suggestion. If you only have a single partition that will do nicely. I believe there is some special code to handle the automatic mounting of /boot for special cases, but I wouldn't worry too much if you don't have a /boot (my laptop now , and when I can be arsed desktop and 2 servers, mount /boot ReadOnly). > Second question which I am sure many of you asked. From which tarball > stage should I install? During the demo at Indiana University, they > started with stage3 since they told us it takes a couple of days of > compiling before you can get a working systems with Gentoo. Is still still > the norm for 1.4? I will be installing Gentoo on a Dell Inspirion 8100 > notebook with a Pentium III 1 GHz Processor with 512 megs of RAM. Which > stage did most of you start from? I'm a stage 1 guy, have been since my very first installation. Depends on how comfortable with linux you are, and how much bandwidth and time you have. Then there is the geekiness/masochist aspect :o) > I have a feeling I will be asking more questions once my CDs arrive. Ask away, there are plenty more people here, many of whom I'm sure know a lot more than I. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SpcSInuLMrk7bIwRAng3AKCiYZTCngcIIanPn+AXl63V+PD19ACeK7re sPx9DjythgZIV4z8kOmyOqk= =XpzK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
