Good point... although I have a separate monitor for my windows box and
can run multiple browser tabs so I can jump around to all the various
useful docs. That and it's nice to have some tunes while I'm working. :-)
b
Greg Bolshaw wrote:
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Ben Munat wrote:
I absolut
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I agree. I setup gentoo windows free. I just switched to back and forth to
different terminals for the docs. The second time I installed gentoo I even
cheated. I setup the framebuffer and svgalib first and used the -g option of
links to see the d
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Ben Munat wrote:
> I absolutely agree. I never would have gotten Gentoo installed without
> my windows box sitting right next to it with multiple browser tabs open
> to the various gentoo docs.
Switch to vc/2 and point lynx to the Gentoo installation pages. If you
do
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 21:11, Tom Hosiawa wrote:
> I still think they would be useful for power users, some of the stuff in
> the install is just repetitive after doing numerous installs (eg.
> extracting stage's, mounting proc, etc).
>
> It was fun doing it for the first time and learning a little
I still think they would be useful for power users, some of the stuff in
the install is just repetitive after doing numerous installs (eg.
extracting stage's, mounting proc, etc).
It was fun doing it for the first time and learning a little bit what it
takes to put an entire linux system together,
Ben Munat wrote:
I must also say that I actually wouldn't rate the docs so highly.
I think the docs are pretty okay. One pretty big complaint, though, is
a lack of a "Go" button for jumping around the install docs (via the
drop-down select list) - a large necessity when reading the install docs
I absolutely agree. I never would have gotten Gentoo installed without
my windows box sitting right next to it with multiple browser tabs open
to the various gentoo docs. A gui that incorporated the docs and guided
the user through the decisions to be made would be very helpful. It
could even k
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:51:20 + (UTC)
Eamon Caddigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 02 January 2004 16:37, Mac Intyre, Steven wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Is there possible a GUI install interface for Gentoo - similar to
> >> Mandrake
Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 16:37, Mac Intyre, Steven wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there possible a GUI install interface for Gentoo - similar to
>> Mandrake.
>
> no, and I hope, that there will be never one.
> genflags/genkernel and the rest of this
