[CS-FSLUG] Gentoo Linux

[Ritchie, Josiah]

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> [mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Warren Sanders
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:30 AM
> To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Gentoo Linux
> 
> David M. wrote:
> > I want to try Gentoo linux, can anyone tell me what I need 
> to download?
> > 
> > Do I download the packagecd iso's or the livecd iso's? 
> What's the difference?
> > 
> I don't want to sound authoritative by any means, but I have 
> taken a stab at running Gentoo a few times.  You want the 
> Live CD and the packages but to be honest with you... I have 
> never made it as far as installing packages as I could never 
> get a working kernel easy or hard.  My lame Dell seems to be 
> a bit tricky to satisfy.
> 
> But anyway... you will need to decide what level of 
> "flexibility" you want for the future by choosing a stage.  I 
> have tried both stage one and three with no better outcome.  
> I would suggest stage three first then after you have 
> installed about three times, try stage one.  You will find in 
> much more satisfying and not all that more difficult at all.  
> Plan lots of time to do your installs!  I managed to maintain 
> a dual boot over several days of my install and return to 
> where I left off from my previous install. 
> Pretty cool I would say.  Don't know of other distros that 
> would allow you to continue at a later date.

IMHO LiveCD Minimal:  You'll want to pull the packages off the web as
you'll end up re-compiling many of them anyway. The minimal CD doesn't
come with packages or a tarball. You 'll wget that off the web to. It
will require patience. Really, it is just about where you want to spend
your time downloading. This is my prefence as it gets the freshest info.

JSR/