On 13 Oct 2003, at 4:31 pm, Stephen Liu wrote:
The download time was short but the total installation time took 2+ hours without completion compelling me to reboot the PC finally. Now the OS is running without sound. Can I reinstall it with the same command without chroot. How can I avoid repeating previous mishap running installation endless.
I think you might find these products more suitable than Gentoo: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/standard http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/powerpack
Mandrake is the distro I recommend to my friends who haven't ever used Linux before. It handles installation of binaries more smoothly than Gentoo does - the stuff you see running endlessly off the screen is Gentoo compiling the software from the language originally written by the programmer into machine-readable ("binary") form. You can leave the compilation running in the background - alt-f1, alt-f2 &c switch to a different virtual terminal - but on my Pentium II & III systems some compiles literally take days.
It should not be necessary to reboot the PC to abort the compilation - pressing the "ctrl" & "C" keys together should terminate the emerge.
If you use Mandrake for 6 months and really like it, but find some things don't quite fit the way you want them to, find yourself compiling from source often, or find yourself more comfortable at the command-line, then perhaps then would be a good time to come back to Gentoo. I really don't consider Gentoo a first Linux distribution.
Stroller.
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