From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITO2U-0000C4-Gx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:33:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l86KPSpE024693; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:25:28 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l86KL1lR019845 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:21:02 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 30so240795nfu for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:21:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=n3wZLEOjzK7T7K6A3tSh9CmUuPeXAk2el37/p7T91B0=; b=kgzh3cI2UFDBBfrWJ/iZXUT44ekV3aYNCrAaDV1vRA/2GzI71Vbufex5N1dk4/NJf8E52n/wuPigys4SO2+I3L9j1JPtDew0clZlJDyazElMWFHQiVagG6xZDsrxcfubNcggHjOrTLweQL5Prc8Nh/MPERoIwHg5jWBgKL7v0Is= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Bc2ER+joBMVhhQGUHrnPoOgGwhJ+NSBL/5sfHvgz4EeXdJm6oGHTJrYM/fPYRx6yO1bUUGDbw0AFjU83CW9AqxV+FFg8dP06NVLewN92vTXtlhcT6f9lB9EU1Eu8KNIjvJRDs5H5vDqFwFE0lzrwSWprWROV///J/LWklh5J5SM= Received: by 10.86.25.17 with SMTP id 17mr866445fgy.1189110061114; Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.63.3 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <28701ea60709061321m4949bc74pf5dd03f2ec98e21c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:21:01 -0500 From: "Whitt Madden" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2007.0 installer problem (unpacking the stage tarball takes forever) In-Reply-To: <342e1090709061308i656ff33m41ed098b72a66c0@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_1340_28543950.1189110061112" References: <642958cc0709061119o505a5487sb62970383def4326@mail.gmail.com> <28701ea60709061128v744f95b7q6011191b16bd89f@mail.gmail.com> <28701ea60709061217h369fd40bodd614a85f59d0f56@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090709061308i656ff33m41ed098b72a66c0@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e89ff2f5-01b7-4e6e-8642-2d3079e0601a X-Archives-Hash: 137593c78b3851fd756e37c2cb6f2312 ------=_Part_1340_28543950.1189110061112 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I agree, I think the reason most don't want to go that route, is because they have to read the instructions. I do think however, that if they offer it as a way to do the install, it should work. I've had trouble with the graphical installer ever since it came to be. I wonder why it has so many issues? On 9/6/07, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > Isn't easier and more productive to simply start a normal install > instead of using the Installer? I admire the work of the devs, but I > simply couldn't use it with some machines, I try it, if it fails, I go > with the normal install and THIS one never fails... > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Whitt Madden ------=_Part_1340_28543950.1189110061112 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I agree, I think the reason most don't want to go that route, is because they have to read the instructions.  I do think however, that if they offer it as a way to do the install, it should work.  I've had trouble with the graphical installer ever since it came to be.  I wonder why it has so many issues?

On 9/6/07, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com> wrote:
Isn't easier and more productive to simply start a normal install
instead of using the Installer? I admire the work of the devs, but I
simply couldn't use it with some machines, I try it, if it fails, I go
with the normal install and THIS one never fails...
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