Me wrote:
John~
(1) Absolutely read the handbook first.
(2) Don't skip any reading
(3) See Step 1
Expect to fail. Almost no one ( in my experience anyway ) installs
it right the first time. You will miss something, or hit a caveat, or
bug ( don't set USE="doc ssl" during a stage1, bad! ;) ). It happens to
us all. Not to sound like it's impossible, but a lot of people screw
up. I've done so many installs I can do it blindfolded, but when you
don't know what is going on ( and more importantly, the why behind it )
skipping a simple step can hurt later. Oh, and prepare for it to take a
while, even compiling a minimal system takes a good chunk of time.
Better to start in the evening and leave it to compile overnight. The
only downside is that if it errors, it will stop. Oh and the LiveCD has
screen, use it.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Coder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] before begining
I have been reading most of the emails sent to this list for the past
couple of days because I plan to start my first attempt at installing
my gentoo system. Is there any addvice from those who have completed
this recently? It will be an amd 800 and I have been running suse for
the past year with great success, and I have tried Feddora core 1 and
previous versions of redhat.
Thanks
John Coder
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