On November 30, 2004 07:19 pm, Chris Wallace wrote: > Well, I'm about to dive into a stage 1 gentoo install and wanted some last > minute tips/tricks from the experienced gentooites. > > Any snares to try to avoid? The specs on this box are not exactly > blisteringly fast (P3 1GHz w/ 512MB RAM) but I figured I'd play with it a > bit on this spare box before moving to a more worthy one. > My first stage 1 was on a similar machine (but only 256MB RAM) and it went reasonably fast. Tips and tricks, you say? Hmm... my number one piece of advice is to write down your partitions, and *make sure you mount them correctly*! I have been forced to redo a stage 1 at least twice because of partition mounting mistakes.
Other than that... just be patient, and read the manual very carefully. > On a side note, any issues with trying to install gentoo in a vm? Other than it being even slower, I don't think there are any issues with installing Gentoo in a VM. Gentoo has fairly good hardware support (on the LiveCD, and you compile the kernel yourself). > > Thanks, > > Chris _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
