gentoo is not even as easy as debian. gentoo is like run fdisk, edit fstab, choose your kernel config, make a kernel, install the bzImage in /boot, install grub, write your own grub menu file, modprobe your ethenet card, set your networking parameters, mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1, all command line. (not in that order either, thats a random sampling :-)
Thas why Chris said print out the instructions from your web browser before you start :-) I will gve a talk though on gentoo if people want to hear what its about. On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 17:18, Gareth Williams wrote: > On Sunday 13 October 2002 16:35, Nick Elder wrote: > > > I for one would like to here something on Gentoo. Is the Debian install a > > gui? I have never seen or heard how that installs, Anyone want to talk on > > that? > > (disclaimer: definitely not volunteering to talk on it :) > but just to say - not unless they've got one recently, when I installed potato > it was text based. although, it depends what you mean by 'gui' - it does have > menus, and IMO is not really any different to a 'gui' install except that the > text is a little more blocky ;) > (that's cool though, I like it that way =) > > Basically, you install and configure a base system (about 15 floppies worth, > or off a CD. heh). Then you boot that and use apt to install the packages you > want. And, IMO, apt quite simply rocks. > > Why do people assume that gui install == easy and text install == hard? It's > the same, just that you choose your options with a keyboard, not a mouse. > Nowdays I think they've even got a 'simple package selection thing' (if you > don't like dselect, or using apt-get manually) where you can select > pre-defined groups of packages, to make life easy if you don't really know > what you want. > > I reckon someone with a couple month's linux experience (prolly helps to know > your way around a bash shell too) could install it easily enough. > > Cheers, > Gareth > > >
