On August 25, 2003 06:51 pm, 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 to gentoo ;-)
> 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.
sure you can. just skip the fdisk step in the install howto and go right to
creating a filesytem on the already existing partitions... you may want to
re-create your partition table though, if only for the learning experience.
> 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?
if you're a newbie, start from stage 1. the docs are so good, that while the
task is daunting, it's VERY informative. install your first gentoo box from
stage one and you'll learn more about linux in 3 days than you did in two
years with redhat.
> I have a feeling I will be asking more questions once my CDs arrive.
it's all good. some of us are newbies, and others are veterans... whatever
your question, it's likely someone here can help.
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-- it is caught. but the bigger one can break through and get away.
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