Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 20, 2006 03:45 AM
I decided to give Gentoo a go back in 2002 after I had my fill of just about every RPM based distro (RH, Mandrake, Suse), and did a GRP install with Gentoo 1.4. I had no problem using the manual to get all of my hardware and software working.
After I did the GRP to get a GUI up and running quickly, I then emerged the latest version of my preferred GUI (KDE). With the exception of RPM, I was a complete noob when it came to anything CLI, and I thought the Gentoo install was pretty easy if you just followed what was in the manual.
I've installed Gentoo four or five times, since then, and I've always found the manual easy to follow.
The only thing I don't like about the new GUI installer is that if you prefer to do an install by hand, the manual is nowhere to be found on the CD, and on 2006.0, the GUI installer failed several times before finally churning out a decent base system.
I just hope the 2006.1 GUI installer has the kinks worked out, and that the manual is on the CD as a backup.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2006 03:45 AMAfter I did the GRP to get a GUI up and running quickly, I then emerged the latest version of my preferred GUI (KDE). With the exception of RPM, I was a complete noob when it came to anything CLI, and I thought the Gentoo install was pretty easy if you just followed what was in the manual.
I've installed Gentoo four or five times, since then, and I've always found the manual easy to follow.
The only thing I don't like about the new GUI installer is that if you prefer to do an install by hand, the manual is nowhere to be found on the CD, and on 2006.0, the GUI installer failed several times before finally churning out a decent base system.
I just hope the 2006.1 GUI installer has the kinks worked out, and that the manual is on the CD as a backup.
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