From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3576 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Dec 2002 17:42:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31613 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2002 17:42:36 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Path: not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:00:14 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <84of737881.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1HDFC8JtxePNGcc1LaIJeAPv6tE= Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Documentation issues (minor) X-Archives-Salt: ab286968-2846-41c4-b314-265221dc9211 X-Archives-Hash: 43d5a4576f82874ff2d50e3d5e7ec023 I'm just installing my first Gentoo system ever, so I thought before I forget I could tell you my experience. (The bootstrap is running, so I have nothing else to do anyway :-) * The documentation could say that support for a lot of network cards is already compiled into the kernel. I was quite shocked when I couldn't find the module for my Realtek card... (Or are the modules on the initrd and it loads them from there? I know nothing about initrd. But it doesn't matter, I think.) * Maybe the installation documentation could say something about the USE variable. Is it better to add a lot of settings right from the start, or is it okay to just start with a few and then add more as we go along? I decided to add lots of settings that I think I will need. * Maybe a word about continuation lines could be said. It seems I can just break the line within the quotes, but how about saying this explicitly? * I kinda got confused about the network setup. (That shock about the missing Realtek module must have been pretty severe :-) So I'm not sure if the following is relevant. My dhcp server appears to need a hostname. Does net-setup allow me to type one in? If not, it might be a good feature. Just to avoid any misunderstandings, I've been reading http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml which I hope was the right thing to do. Now I will go back and read some email. Stay tuned for more stupid messages after the bootstrap has finished... (Or just tell me to shut up if I'm annoying.) -- Ambibibentists unite! -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list