That's what you get for trying to abandon Gentoo... LoL. Robin
On 12/20/05, Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must confess. I've been unfaithful. > For a day. > > After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by > uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less brain > taxing. > So I reinstalled with Kubuntu. > > I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ... > I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses. > > I had to fiddle repeatedly with the installation routine just to get the > thing installed. It constantly refused to install on my laptop > unless I used extended debugging (on the fifth attempt). Then I just > wondered who decided I needed all that rubbish in my KDE installation. > > All rubbish installed I tried opening a mpg from the net. "Totem can't > handle mpg", trying Kaffeine I get "No codecs installed". Looking > desperately for codecs in the install tools I came up empty. So I tried the > installation docs for Kubuntu - which aren't updated for the latest release. > So I went to the forums to look for the solution, but being acustomed to the > Gentoo forums I found them a bit confusing. > OK, I thought - I'll leave that for later, so I tried playing a DVD "can't > find the CD-player" at the location that /etc/fstab says it is mounted. > > So I run an installer, it is setup with the configuration decided on by > Kubuntu developers, and it doesn't work out of the box. > Why bother? > > Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... > I think I'll run the stable branch this time though. > > > Regards, > > Martin S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
