Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] JUNK! RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
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RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-10 Thread brian connolly
: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies The Gentoo is difficult thing has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time, so please excuse the lengthy reply... None of this is intended as flame, merely as an opposing viewpoint. On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:47:37 -0600 brian connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-10 Thread Andrew Gaffney
brian connolly wrote: Ciaran, My wife has this skin care system to which she subscribes. She's a fanatic. It comes with about 20 odd bottles of ointments, elixirs and various stuff. She painstakingly mixes and applies. It takes her well over an hour a day. For the record, that exorcise has very

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-10 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:36, Jason Stubbs wrote: The basic stage 1 install goes: 1) Set up networking 2) Set up partitions 3) Extract stage1 tarball 4) Chroot 5) Run bootstrap.pl 6) emerge system 7) emerge kernel 8) compile kernel 8) emerge syslog 9) emerge cron 10) emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-10 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:11, Nathaniel wrote: So don't ever equate "pretty" with "less-useful" because if done right, it will let you do everything you want to do, your way, but it will be more efficient and less prone to error. That is the heart of Gentoo, your way, right

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-10 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:43:46 +0900 Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess some people didn't notice my point. The basic RedHat install is (or I believe to be): 1) Set up partitions 2) Choose packages 3) Set up networking 4) Set up lilo/grub 5) Set up timezone (forgot that above)

[gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
Tom, Ya think someone might write an IS-GLIS? This is how dumb I am... how do you install the Gentoo install script? Download the latest release... got it. Extract by typing the following: tar xvjpf glis*.tar.bz2 when, where? Run ./glis for directions what? Brian -Original Message-

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 17:47, brian connolly wrote: Tom, Ya think someone might write an IS-GLIS? This is how dumb I am... how do you install the Gentoo install script? Download the latest release... got it. Extract by typing the following: tar xvjpf glis*.tar.bz2 when, where? Run

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
GLIS was recently re-written to clean up the code and include a lot of bug fixes. Right now, I'm working on a GUI for GLIS, but it will be a while before its usable. At the moment, GLIS is more for people who have already installed Gentoo and know what they are doing, who just want to automate

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
. -Original Message- From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies GLIS was recently re-written to clean up the code and include a lot of bug fixes. Right now, I'm working on a GUI for GLIS

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
will be able to think of ourselves as exclusive and pretty smart. -Original Message- From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 7:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies Sounds about right to me. brian connolly wrote

[gentoo-user] [OT] JUNK! RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Przemysaw Macig
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RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies I think if you look carefully you'll find that these fancy GUI installers and sysadmin tools really don't help you any. I've used them on some other distros and found

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On 11/9/03 10:08 PM, brian connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by what is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. Now rather than do something, per se, the typical OS dev will point to various reference

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:08, brian connolly wrote: Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by what is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. Now rather than do something, per se, the typical OS dev will point to various reference material

RE: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread brian connolly
is essential to vitality and growth of any OS project. Brian Connolly -Original Message- From: Jason Stubbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies On Monday 10 November 2003 12:08, brian connolly wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Chris
] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies On Monday 10 November 2003 12:08, brian connolly wrote: Bottom line: Gentoo's reputation is good... but definitely hampered by what is generally regarded as a difficult install. You know that. Now rather than do something, per se

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
: Sunday, November 09, 2003 8:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies I think if you look carefully you'll find that these fancy GUI installers and sysadmin tools really don't help you any. I've used them on some other distros and found that I didn't have to have

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
The Gentoo is difficult thing has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time, so please excuse the lengthy reply... None of this is intended as flame, merely as an opposing viewpoint. On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:47:37 -0600 brian connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | From a business perspective... you've

Re: [gentoo-user] GLIS for dummies

2003-11-09 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: But what if I didn't want a super-flexible install, and would prefer to hide behind a pretty front end? Well, thanks to the GLIS guys, that's also an option. You need only type in two commands (assuming you don't have a wierd network setup, but if GLIS makes it onto the