From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPoj8-0003GG-Ks for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 04:32:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FCC31C01A; Fri, 27 May 2011 04:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD331C01A for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 04:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so805392gxk.40 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 21:31:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; bh=q5euRIMMdBMrb0zFvM1Kf56WwMEX2iEdNwp4fESyF/U=; b=Q9NI+0Tu4HxR3or3kwih6/35oQSLJbWoFPDwa+u3v3g1UmMKHu6hKwChTiY0DohVxX 3xuQHooeXngjB3UjTdeu1lq5os/2bCZN1JxlMEw1cAwtuW8LDn4/AsE/o8BcDeHIhfMj C4zUxT8Jo45OjGTE9pcma5FZnt1NQAj6P/Mjw= 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; b=ONPxezGRgR26eOZAvAZcLacBYQZWpDxUkweyatWiLKBVcirNS6iN1vUY3oQkXKQ5/w grOWN0hKgiWZ9tF/TxOVig2dHF/54cMfN9CwwowQDdf5d0yil+dlbzepVGNdor21sggx sTX4qqlVFsDXd8RTYY5yBpt/2YR98/eYchzYw= Received: by 10.236.183.226 with SMTP id q62mr2112729yhm.42.1306470678621; Thu, 26 May 2011 21:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-108-236.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.108.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w70sm170812yhl.31.2011.05.26.21.31.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 May 2011 21:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DDF2913.8000001@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 23:31:15 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110517 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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] Goodbye, Gentoo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040400070100030703020200" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c4af531dfad5b5c78ea207d4881911ef This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040400070100030703020200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields > wrote: > > > > You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your > system scare you away? > > Have you tried using an older live cd? If it's a video issue, > maybe detecting your monitor wrong, how about turning on the > framebuffer (there's an option for that)? > > It's doable man, don't give up. > > > Of course it's doable. It's just the last straw. This left my web > site down for a week; I obviously can't always keep up with Gentoo's > requirements, so I'm going to an easier distro that I'm equally > familiar with. > > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > But you will be back. ;-) Dale :-) :-) --------------040400070100030703020200 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kevin O'Gorman wrote:


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com> wrote:


You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your system scare you away?

Have you tried using an older live cd? =C2=A0If it's a video issue, maybe detecting your monitor wrong, how about turning on the framebuffer (there's an option for that)?

It's doable man, don't give up.

Of course it's doable.=C2=A0 It's just the last straw.=C2=A0 This left my= web site down for a week; I obviously can't always keep up with Gentoo's requirements, so I'm going to an easier distro that I'm equally familiar with.


--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD


But you will be back.=C2=A0 ;-)=C2=A0

Dale

:-)=C2=A0 :-)=C2=A0
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