On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:22:43 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared Collins Richey commented > thusly, > > Yes, but I dont know if I am missing something here, but still this > means that you need a lot of patience and a extremely high level of > linux experience to install gentoo. Got it in one. Gentoo was not designed for the unexperienced, but a lot of unexperienced users have made the grade. > > Also there are annying things like something simple as emerge emu10k1 > trying to download aumix and all its dependencies like xf86 :( This is (merely) a matter of understanding the USE variables. Always do an 'emerge -pv packagename' to understand what USE variables are recognized by the package. An example: xfce will drag in all of kde and gnome, if those USE variables are in effect! > > But all in all I like it, its just the installation process that sux. > > Currently I got the 2.6 kernel installed, but genkernel asks me to > pass the options "boot=/dev/ram0 real_boot=/dev/hda6", I tried but it > dont work so I switched back to 2.4.20. > > Is there a way to get newer kernels ? > Don't have a clue. genkernel has created more grief for more people than any other gentoo feature. I wouldn't touch it with a fork. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
