I have been installing gentoo 2005.0 from the manual on a number of machines. (slowly replacing windoze servers -nt3.5/4/2000)
There is a couple of issues dependant on hardware. You can have a very smooth ride if the live disc recognises all your hardware. If not the going gets tough - especially with the networking - yet to have it working during the install but have managed to get it working after. The documentation is a shambles in regard to networking - I have managed to get part of it changed and are currently working on getting some more cleaned up. Maurice -----Original Message----- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 4:32 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: gimp Robert Fisher wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2005 13:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > >>I think that's a bit harsh, Douglas. I think of gimp as the gentoo of the >>imageing arena. >> >> >================================= > >I think that is a bit harsh Steve. > >I think that the Gentoo Docs are probably amongst the best of any distro. > > > About 6 months ago, I sat down to install gentoo using only the resources available on that site. Even ardent admirers like Nick agreed that this is impossible to do. The docs missed out too many really important things - just took them for granted. ( and pointing out alternative third party resources is missing the point ). This is the point I'm trying to make. Cheers, Steve
