Gentoo is learning experiance. I would actually attempt to repair the system you have, rather than restart as otherwise, you are likely to repeat the very same mistakes. I have found that applying redhat-ism's to gentoo can cause some severe problems as there some fundamental differences.
Excessive build time: check out ccache and distcc (both of which will run on redhat, and chroot builds on the redhat system. xdm/gdm: sounds like rc.conf is misconfigured, or you are trying to start xdm/gdm manually, and not via the proper scripts? BillK On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 15:55, Joseph Eaton wrote: > After TWO WEEKS!!! of emerging and such, I can finally log into a > graphical user interface (Genome) on my Gentoo laptop. > > I am typing this on my Main desktop running RH9. I am a sort of Newbie > that converted a while back. RH is so easy to install (took 45 minutes) > and use. > > Gentoo, on the other hand, has been compiling code for 14 days straight > on a K6-2 500 laptop. > > I couldn't get KDE to emerge properly. Gnome took about 20 or so > tries. It would fail on certain packages. I just retyped the command > and prayed. Most of the time that worked. The error messages were > always cryptic and google is an old friend. > > I couldn't get xscreensave to emerge. I said screw it and moved on. I > just wanted to to see a login screen. > > Well, eventhough I set it up to run GDM as the login manager, xdm still > runs. I just log in twice. > > I think I will wipe the system and start over again. I started from > stage 1. Next time will be stage 3. > > I don't see putting Gentoo on my main system just yet. RH9 is so > convenient with RPMs and now APT-GET. Maybe when I lose the n00b > status, I will "upgrade" to Gentoo. > > -Joseph -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
