On Thursday 24 October 2002 15:45, Barak Kaufman wrote: > Hello list > following the discussion about how great (or not) gentoo is , i decided to > give it a try and install it on my laptop. > i went to gentoo.org and grabbed the livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2 image (it was > the only cd image available there) > after booting off the cd on my laptop i was prepared to follow the detailed > setup instructions on the gentoo site, but then the most interesting thing > happened. turns out that even though the installation manual has a very > detailed explanation on inserting the pcmcia modules (my internal nic does > not have a driver in the 2.4 series) when i ran the insmod pcmcia_core > commad i was greeted with "no module by that name" > after a bit of browsing through the directories i found out that the cd > excluded *all* pcmcia related files. > The system can be really great and optimized, but if a user cant install it > .. its worthless. > > p.s. i do realise it says rc1 on it, but it is the only cd image available > on the *official* ftp. >
This is a known, er, problem. They intend to, er, fix it. > FYI -- "I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
