On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:46, Kevin J. Anderson wrote:
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> The only thing I would add is that I dont know of a gentoo-designed way to
> start from a bootable floppy rather than one of the gentoo cdroms.
> Although, I am sure its just a matter of downloading for example a rootboot
> disk http://w
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->From: John Indra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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->Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Interested in Gentoo, need answers to several
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> Last words: Try Gentoo and you might not go back to FreeBSD. ;)
Aah... Just the kind of light I hoped someone shed on me ;)
Thank you very much. Your reply pretty much enlighten a lot of things.
/john
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"John Indra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In FreeBSD, there are -STABLE branch and -CURRENT branch. Whenever I
> want to install the latest -STABLE branch
Gentoo is FreeBSD on S T E R O I D S.
My NAT / IPFW2 (DMZ) box is a FreeBSD-4.8-PRERELEASE with 47 make worlds
/ kernel compiles :).
I nev
On March 5, 2003 10:03 pm, John Indra wrote:
> In FreeBSD, there are -STABLE branch and -CURRENT branch. Whenever I
> want to install the latest -STABLE branch
gentoo using something called "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" that you can define in your
make.conf file. if you set it to say, "x86" gentoo will only
You do
emerge sync # which pulls in the latest builds.
emerge programofchoice # which configures, builds, installs the program
emerge -u world will update anything that needs it. There are options to do
the dependencies also.
emerge -u system will update the system.
emerge -pu world will tel
Hallo all...
I am VERY interested in Gentoo Linux. I am a long time FreeBSD user and
I have used Linux before. Red Hat 6 was the last Linux flavor I taste
thus that was a long time ago. I haven't followed many Linux news since
then.
If anyone here has used FreeBSD before, probably he/she can shed
