Jesús Guerrero wrote: > El Vie, 6 de Febrero de 2009, 23:55, Dale escribió: > > >> This was one thing I liked about Mandrake, now Mandriva. Put in the CD, >> boot up, set up drives, select ALL the software you can stand, let it >> install and then reboot. What really made it good, when you reboot, ALL >> your software is already installed. Dang that was cool. It doesn't run >> as fast as Gentoo but if you want a Linux install in a hurry, that is one >> way to get it. Then you can use Mandrake to do your Gentoo install. >> chroot works wonderfully. Run into a problem, just go to a browser and >> search the forums etc to get help. >> > > Weird like hell. Just boot a knoppix livecd and install gentoo > from there. Or any livecd of your liking. > > If you like Mandriva and you install it to use it, then it's > ok, but to install it just to use it as a Gentoo installer it's > a weird thing to say the least. > >
Mandrake was what I switched from. I used Mandrake for about six months when I decided to switch, mostly because the upgrade process sucked. I didn't install Mandrake just to install Gentoo, it was what was already installed. That said, if I thought I would run into trouble and needed my dial-up to work during the install, I would stick in a old drive and install Mandrake and install from there. I'm not saying someone else should but setting up dial-up on most bootable CDs is not fun. Dale :-) :-)
