On Monday 27 March 2006 11:58, Rik Tindall wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > >you know i was wondering if you would be there again :-) > > it's worthwhile just for the erudite company, banter & skills, i reckon > > >can we just update the install you already have (ducks for cover). > > not unless there's some disk recovery tech that can read beneath the old > FreeBSD that got installed over Gentoo. I can't help but wonder, seeing as you have not been able to persevere with a Gentoo installation on your own, whether Gentoo is suitable for you? However the installation manual has been extensively revised and updated since the last 'Robert's Garage' event. You might care to study the top three links on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=install#doc_chap2 carefully.
> it might be good to dedicate the following CLUG meeting to any residual > tasks, updates, & maybe a talk on the advantages & differences people > get from using Gentoo. i.e. perhaps some sub-community continuity. > absence of that followup was why i didn't persevere last time. CLUG has speakers booked for both April and May. Would you be able to make time available at the Sydenham venue for the purpose? It's our intention to get people started on Gentoo Linux by helping them to get it installed. Installing Gentoo is not particularly difficult, assuming that you have a very general basic understanding of computer functioning and how programs are built. You also have to be able to read English instructions and carry them out intelligently. It's the fact that Gentoo is a strictly source code based distribution which makes it so completely different from installing any other Linux distribution. Thus some people find the installation of Gentoo to be something of a trial. We feel that the long term benefits offered by Gentoo far outweigh the initial baptism of fire. This is our motivation for offering the Gentoo MiniFests. However do please note that it is simply not possible for us to provide a long term continuum of ongoing free support to users who, for whatever reason, can't read and understand the printed computer documentation to perform the necessary maintenance tasks. -- CS
