On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gentoo has excellent dox & is much more user-friendly than its reput'n > & there's a v friendly community of developers/users. > you do have to pay attention to what you're doing, of course. I dont think I wil have a problem with low level linux interfacing, the only problem I have is with gentoo's init scripts, ie they are somewhat different to the other distributions initfiles right? What is the impact of this aspect of gentoo's behaviour? > > My 80gb disk is partioned in to / and /home, I would like to keep /home. > > copy /home to CD & re-install it: surely, that's simplest. Unforutantely /home is 30GB :( But I think I can keep it, and install gentoo to the formatted / partiion, and keep the swap file. > > My nvnet nforce2 ethernet is automatically detected by the live cd1, > > so I have everything working. > > you don't need the Internet to install Gentoo, if you use GRP. but I would like to update it later :) > > 3. I have a broadband connection so large downloads are not a problem. > > that's important once you have a running system & want to update things. > > with similar h/ware & I/net connection to yours, > i downloaded/compiled/installed OpenOffice 1.1 in c 5 h 30 m > & this wk ditto KOffice 1.3 in 1 h 16 m . Hmm...Good. Well it certainly will be interesting to see what happens when I start installing it :-) Bye, Grendel -- Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
