On 5/13/05, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > > Knoppix. > [..] > > I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda. > > "The Gentoo Installation CDs are bootable CDs which contain a > self-sustained Gentoo environment. They allow you to boot Linux from > the CD. During the boot process your hardware is detected and the > appropriate drivers are loaded. They are maintained by Gentoo > developers." -the handbook, 2c > > I'm somewhat familiar with knoppix. when the handbook says > "self-sustained" do they mean live, like knoppix? > > thanks, > > Thufir
Thufir, I think the point you may be missing here is that there is NOTHING graphical about the Gentoo installation. It is nothing more than a very carefully crafted set of text commands. After executing maybe 50 commands you have a working Gentoo system. Very basic, but working. >From there you add more functionality based on your wants and needs. However no where in the process is there anything very graphical other than the boot screen when the CD is booting. Everything else is, I believe, pure text. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
