[gentoo-dev] gentoo 1.0rc5 installation

[gentoo-dev] gentoo 1.0rc5 installation

[skinny bastard]

I'm installing from the i686 full install iso I obtained from the France 
mirror. Once reaching the point of installing the packages, I discovered 
that my cd was bad. I'm currently obtaining the iso again to burn a new cd, 
but I had one question. Using the packaging system installed, is it feasable 
to emerge all packages in the ..../All directory on the cd? I'm not an 
advanced user, and so I'm having difficulty determining which packages are 
neccessary. If it is not going to be a good idea to install all the 
packages, then I may just go through them one-by one and attemp to make a 
best-guess.

I am rather excited, by the way, about installing this distribution. After 
using other more popular ones for several months, I was dismayed at the 
number of bugs that are rampant. I know that as long as new features are 
added, bugs will keep appearing, but I'm hoping to bring that to a minimum.

Thanks and good luck,
James Tiller

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo 1.0rc5 installation

[Aron Griffis]

skinny bastard wrote:	[Fri Sep 21 2001, 06:00:02PM EDT]
> I'm installing from the i686 full install iso I obtained from the
> France mirror. Once reaching the point of installing the packages,
> I discovered that my cd was bad. I'm currently obtaining the iso again
> to burn a new cd, but I had one question. Using the packaging system
> installed, is it feasable to emerge all packages in the ..../All
> directory on the cd? I'm not an advanced user, and so I'm having
> difficulty determining which packages are neccessary. If it is not
> going to be a good idea to install all the packages, then I may just
> go through them one-by one and attemp to make a best-guess.

I wouldn't recommend that, but you could try it.  Gentoo's dependency
system is good enough that you can simply choose one of the larger
packages (for instance gnome-core), emerge it, and the plethora of
dependencies will be automatically installed.

> I am rather excited, by the way, about installing this distribution.
> After using other more popular ones for several months, I was dismayed
> at the number of bugs that are rampant. I know that as long as new
> features are added, bugs will keep appearing, but I'm hoping to bring
> that to a minimum.

Great!  Hope you like it.  Beware that Gentoo is still in prerelease
stages, so it's far from bug free.  But it's shaping up well and has
lots of potential.

Aron