On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:02, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Tue, February 8, 2005 12:52 pm, Christopher Sawtell said: > >[snip] > > > > btw, Gentoo is not intended for folks who have your requirements. > > Forget it, and move on to something else which self-installs. > > > > -- > > Sincerely etc., > > Christopher Sawtell > > My requirements are to offer an oss package on as many platforms as > possible. I have builds on Debian, WBEL, Mandrake, FC3, SLES 9 ( and > Windows 2000! ) fo far. > > Considering that those who are interested in things like playing with > their own spam filters will probably also be those who will have taken the > time to build a kernel from scratch, I don't think that the above is necessarily the case. An opinion mind you.
> I'd say that the above statement is > potentially a bit incorrect, wouldn't you? I misunderstood you requirements. Your appeared to be bemoaning the fact that Gentoo does not have a hidden install process like Solaris etc. > AFAICT it is nigh on impossible to install Gentoo from scratch in New > Zealand using the instructions on the website. Correct me if I'm wrong. Do a stage3 and GRP install from the CDs, and you don't even have to go out to the net. All over in an hour or two provided you have a reasonably fast CD drive, faster if you are installing from a hard-drive on your LAN. I have the disc image files:- install-x86-universal-2004.3.iso and packages-pentium3-2004.3.iso if you are interested. Let me know and I'll bring them this evening. Blanks in return would be fine. Enjoy creating the .ebuild file. btw, Spam-Oracle is, imho, the best spam filter devised so far. ( better than Paradise's Bright-Mail which lets through most of the 'Nigerians' ) http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html I have a spam corpus file, if you are interested. > The fact that I'm also installing in vmware has meant that grub doesn't > work as written which is really frustrating, but I consider that to be > *my* problem. Indeed. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
