It may be wise at the dry run to test with both knoppix & Nick's CD. It sounds like Nick has made a neat CD, but it may have a few wrinkles. I've installed all my Gentoo's via a knoppix boot, as long as you can get the appropriate stage file onto your box somehow then it is the same as a gentoo install.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 23 June 2003 9:42 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Gentoo installfest > > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:10, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > > My appologies if this has already been answered (my mail server ate > > most Clug messages last week) but have we settled on a date > for this > > installfest? > Dry run at the next CLUG to attempt to sort out any stray > issues. That's Monday 30/jul/03. > > The Real Thing the following w/e i.e. Saturday 05/jul/03 > Some of us might be up there the previous day getting things set up. > > > I have the oppotunity to buy a fairly high octane machine > cheap at the > > moment and would like to try Gentoo out. > You won't regret it. > > > Also I seem to remember someone saying Gentoo has not support for > > rpm's and the like. School's groupware client is only > availible as an > > rpm, anyway I could install it under Gentoo? > You can install the rpm system and then use that to install > rpm packages. I have used it to install The FirstClass Client > for Linux. By some miracle it all worked. > > -- > C. S. > >
