Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

[Christopher Robinson <chrisrobinson@rocketmail.com>]

I don't really want to get into a fight, but some of the replies-not Rich's- are missing
the point I am raising. To then disparage me is unworthy for a support list.
--------------------------------------------
On Sat, 9/24/16, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Date: Saturday, September 24, 2016, 3:44 PM
 
 Rich Freeman wrote:
 > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Dale
 <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
 wrote:
 >> Actually, he is correct.
 > Actually, he isn't, which is hard to
 demonstrate since everybody is top-posting.
 
 Actually he is and your reply
 supports that point.  Also, I top posted
 because he did and I posted that reasoning. 
 I'm sure he will get around
 to bottom
 posting when he gets his install done.  Who knows what he
 is
 using at the moment. 
 >
 >> On Saturday,
 September 24, 2016 9:47 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
 >> wrote:
 >>
 >> You need to read chapter 1 of the
 Gentoo handbook from start to finish,
 >> then read it again.
 > The handbook doesn't have chapters. 
 The step that was missed was well
 > into
 the process.
 >
 
 If he was reading and following the install
 guide, how did he do that
 when he missed a
 whole section?  Obviously, he wasn't following it
 since
 he missed the section.  When I did my
 first install well over a decade
 ago, I read
 that thing at least three of four times to even see if I
 wanted to try Gentoo.  During my last install
 on my new rig a few years
 ago, I read it
 twice even tho it was mostly the same.  Installing
 Gentoo
 isn't easy but it is very hard
 when you are not familiar enough with the
 process to even realize you missed a whole
 section.  If you follow the
 guide and
 don't miss anything, it should work.  The only major
 set back
 you can have is a badly configured
 kernel that won't complete the boot
 process.  I might add, this is also why I
 prefer a one page guide. 
 Start at the top
 and work your way to the bottom.  Very little chance of
 missing anything then. 
 
 Now that he knows he missed a section, maybe he
 can chroot into it, do
 that section and
 finish the install.  That is unless his mobo blows out. 
 :/
 
 Dale
 
 :-)  :-)