* Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 Questions
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@ 2002-10-28 2:07 ` Craig Peterein
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From: Craig Peterein @ 2002-10-28 2:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: john3868; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 03:18:42PM -0500, john3868@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
>I'm planning on making my first attempt to install Gentoo on my system soon.
>I have some questions (I hope that I haven't missed the answers to them in the
>FAQ or docs). When installing with the 1.4_rc1 CD, how is security addressed
>while the sources download is occurring?
By default there are no services started during the install. At least, I
couldn't see any when I nmapped my box (from another one) during the install.
>Is there a basic firewall that is gets installed and configured when you
>execute the net_setup script?
No, not by default.
>Also, what is the difference between the "dist_files" and the "gentoo_sources"
>subdirs on the download site? Thanks in advance for your help!
distfiles is the directory where source files for everything are downloaded and
stored. gentoo-sources is the ebuild for the kernel source plus some gentoo
performance patches.
> - Andrew Johnson
Craig
PS, please break your lines at <80 chars.
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