Re: [gentoo-user] New User Question

2004-01-14 Thread Diego Zamboni
A good idea, but I've only experienced major headaches when switching between distros. I copied everything I needed off the machine in question, and burned everything down to the point of repartitioning the hard drives. Yes, that's what I did too. What I tried to say was that I didn't start from

Re: [gentoo-user] New User Question

2004-01-14 Thread blade-
Yes that is normal, I guess it is because the files are very small that it takes less then a second to get them. not to sure tho. Very good to hear. As I do need to grab the portage tree, I was wondering if it's normal to see a bunch of 0K downloaded 0:00 indicators when synching. I didn't pr

Re: [gentoo-user] New User Question

2004-01-14 Thread Krikket
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Diego Zamboni wrote: > > 1> The install document refers tp GRP repeatedly. [IE: If you are not > > using GRP...] What is GRP? I don't see any obvious answers in the > > install doc. It's possible I've missed something, but... > > It's there, near the beginning of the insta

Re: [gentoo-user] New User Question

2004-01-14 Thread Diego Zamboni
1> The install document refers tp GRP repeatedly. [IE: If you are not using GRP...] What is GRP? I don't see any obvious answers in the install doc. It's possible I've missed something, but... It's there, near the beginning of the installation instructions: Note: A complete Gentoo Linux 2-CD

[gentoo-user] New User Question

2004-01-14 Thread Krikket
I've decided to give Gentoo a shot. I'm at the point of the install where I'm waiting for the portage trees to replicate before I go any further... (Yeah, I don't want to screw things up due to the server crash earlier today. Er, yesterday. Just noticed the time.) But I have two questions that