On Monday, 21 August 2017 12:49:27 BST mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > Any likely problems if i install the stage3 tarball etc. under centos6.6? > tried the live dvd but it has problems with my current graphics card > (framebuffer driver).
I haven't tried out installing Gentoo using a CentOS LiveCD, but I have installed it using Knoppix and more recently I have been exclusively using systemrescueCD. I recommend you give it a spin. > I'm excited about using gentoo, though the online instructions could really > use more structuring, i.e. it's hard to avoid reading the parts you don't > need to and the "flow" is rather lost. I think the flow is not bad, for my needs at least. For example this page offers a chapter at a time: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 which walks you through the installation in a structured manner. You can skip the section you are familiar with or have processed already. > It's an extremely verbose document > which makes it very hard to get the gist of the install procedure. Well you can't cover all edge use cases in a document which has to introduce new users to this meta-distro, but it should get any willing participant to a boot prompt after some diligent application of keyboard effort. > it's > not a bad document, merely poorly organized. I do appreciate the work that > went into it, and it's good to have the detail available, but a more > hierarchical procedure would be more readable and understandable. i'm > fairly experienced at linux and it's hard for me to follow, most newbies > would be helplessly confused. Once i'm more familiar with gentoo i'd be > happy to take a stab at it, but not until i'm far more familiar. Thank you > for what is likely the best distro for me and for being transparent, this > is meant as purely constructive criticism, and i know no documentation can > please all. no flames please, i've given up on other distro's who's mail > list are full of flamers, something that doesn't help anyone. > > /OT > yes, i'm dysgraphic, but i try to be concise and use good grammar, and all > of my sentences go somewhere. I also don't expect non-native speakers to > be perfect, i know english is a somewhat ugly language in many cases (like > spelling), but that's because like gentoo, pieces have been borrowed from > all over. that eclectic nature can be very useful but tends to slightly > complicate things and webster didn't do us any favors. i'm 54 and learned > to write cursive/script at least 4 times, it never stuck. my brain works > differently than most but that's often a good thing (i tend to notice > things many people miss, and often miss what is obvious to others to some > degree). so bear with me and you might learn something, or ignore my posts > and the insight in them but please don't think you can help more than an > army of educators has. if you try to shame me the fault is your's. i am > dyslexic, there are worse things. i do pay special attention to > abbreviations where capitalisation can really matter, it is alot more of an > effort for me than for most./OTOFF For someone who is dysgraphic/dyslexic I think you are managing extremely well, so this won't stop you trying out Gentoo, even if the handbook appears awkward at times. I seem to recall a shorter guide for more advanced users but I can't find it at present. Others may have a URL for it. -- Regards, Mick
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