[gentoo-user] A confession
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
Re: [gentoo-user] A confession
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
Re: [gentoo-user] A confession
051220 Martin S wrote: I must confess. I've been unfaithful For a day. After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by uncarefully upgrading I decided to try something less brain taxing. So I reinstalled with Kubuntu. -- details snipped -- Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine, which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed is too slow infrequently used to install Gentoo. The latest Mandrake 2006 CD 1 refused to boot, so I had to make a diskette, then the installer couldn't figure out my 2001 graphics card, then finally when I tried to boot the installed system all I got was a lot of colored lines across the screen. How about Kubuntu? -- I don't like Gnome, so didn't want Ubuntu -- , so I got the CD, installed booted the system. First, I wanted to set up ADSL, but the window fell off the bottom of the screen I couldn't see the sysadmin privileges button hidden down there; when I tried to get sysprivs via CLI, it refused to recognise the password: (K)ubuntu has a mickey-mouse simplification which abolishes root does everything with the user's own password, but of course the tiny handful of Kubuntu developers have screwed it up. The 2001 graphics card has a bug which prevents text showing on screen before X is started, so I couldn't install Slackware. Finally, I managed to get Mandrake 2005 = 10.2 from their mirrors got it installed, tho' I had to use the diskette again to start installing. I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ... I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses. Exactly ! Back up often, try to understand what you're doing, incl ~x86, but if you do wreck your system, the best bet by far is re-installing Gentoo. And let's tell the devs how much we appreciate their donated time. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A confession
Philip Webb wrote: Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine, which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed is too slow infrequently used to install Gentoo. [snip] How about Kubuntu? -- I don't like Gnome, so didn't want Ubuntu -- , so I got the CD, installed booted the system. First, [snip] A little off topic, but I'm also a non-Gnome guy and I have had pretty good luck with the free version of Xandros on a P3 450 machine that I really only care about browsing the web, listening to audio, or playing simple games on. I don't know how politically incorrect Xandros is, but it seems to work pretty well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
