On Sunday 13 October 2002 17:57, Nick Rout wrote: > 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 :-)
heh. yes (order), I was beginning to wonder when I saw the last one ;) It sounds good, when I get some spare time (and HD space) I might have a play with it =) > > 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. Great. I know I'd certainly be interested. Cheers, Gareth > > 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
