quoth the A1ex:
> I'm trying to install Gentoo from a UniversalCD using the instructions
> found at
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2004.3/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5
> and I must say the instructions could use some editing.
>
> The instructions in section 5  for installing from the UniversalCD  are
> so intertangled
> with those for downloading that it's very difficult to follow them.
> There are sections that
> are labelled for CD installation but they seem to bump into download
> instructions.
>
> I prefer to download and install packages after I have a basic Linux
> system installed.and
> working.
>
> I'm sure it would help others like me who aren't experts if the two methods
> were separated into two distinct sections  that don't switch back and forth
> between the CD and download procedures.
>
> Are instructions available that describe how to do everything from CD
> without
> sliding into the download procedure?.
>
> alex

Dude, how hard is it to skip section 5c? Right at the bottom of sect. 5b is a 
clickable link that will skip it for you....

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