From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVD5q-0000ou-Jm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:53:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D70DE03D4; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C33E03D4 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so250168yxp.46 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:53:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QK16rLHGHI9Q76Q2DguWw7dUdHUCumLIKYCyxevGz/M=; b=IrJeDOGuoHNZ8PqZNjHgU5/yGqometkhOW6QGgtsI2zbM9XLsXoaOrLdNpf6wLu2Cb nv9+5nrFKEUKxZ7roc92L6c2l/qhdD6Qvxx/iWrTH5vfoY6aYf5YLzKukIjg8PXknBA4 S0qzbSUzYFKG2uvaN+LOb9gx/1Zz5qHJCWBCM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FVA0f1JB713/W9bb2m/U4cF3omT+JARuRF+Q6zSKlxlBwdcdR+Xp0tAaBP7qD6en3C AE71Cfsi5l+EfQyhqLaGvxH3BzNvavgTD6/SI4K4ADp72p4C6VsCGuc0n/MiRWWMFQRy 05m0tIOsIHslxOdLg+U+Za00MP4e9YqIkps6w= Received: by 10.142.173.14 with SMTP id v14mr578269wfe.116.1233874388036; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.87.21? (dialup-4.231.87.21.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.87.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm2257757wfg.40.2009.02.05.14.53.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:53:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498B6DDB.5040205@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:53:15 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh? References: <200902052010.25653.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200902052036.05303.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <498B42D4.3060005@gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0902051220m35e15s2171a98bba6cf82e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0902051220m35e15s2171a98bba6cf82e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 601222a5-cc50-4b11-b095-7f00da3d76f3 X-Archives-Hash: 919a91279c6372a0a71765dd8d632188 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll wrote: > > >> I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I >> feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and >> follow what the doc is trying to convey. >> >> >> --Joshua Doll >> > > I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it > requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, > especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. > > - Mark > > > What I find ironic here, I have been know to use copy and paste to install Gentoo. I may have to change a mount point or a partition location, hda2 to hda6 or something, but otherwise, copy and paste works well. Dale :-) :-)