Thanks Duncan for your mail - I'll do my best to follow your guidelines On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 15:36, Duncan wrote: > The biggest suggestion I have is DON'T STOP WITH THE INSTALLATION SECTION > IN THE HANDBOOK! You said you've "toyed" with Gentoo, but I that doesn't > really say how much you know about it.
by "toying" I mean I've run through the basic installation several time, both on x86 and ppc machines, mostly with the goal of getting a better understanding of how a Linux distribution is set up. I did not stop with the installation section, but it's clearly the part I know best! Usually, after that, I got to some place were I had a problem and... let Gentoo live were it was while continuing to use my main distro (Mepis Linux for over two years). I did come back from time to time to try things, such as going through an emerge --update --deep world to see if I would manage it. Since I will keep my trusty double-Athlon running (either as main computer or backup server) I'll have plenty of time to setup the Opteron and even a complete crash would not be a big problem at first. So as far as time permits I'll RTFM in details this time. I'd just end with saying that I am neither a progammer, nor a learned system manager, so some subtilities about flags and so escape my understanding. However, being a teacher, I'll be happy toget back to student level and ask questions here when necessary. Regards, Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
