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From: "liu shukui" <liushukuicn1771@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Side point: it never ceases to amaze me the extent to which people think
> installation is some magical procedure with voodoo in it, or that a
> program (which is not installed yet!) somehow manages to install
> itself.
>
> When I give classes I usually let people do at least one install by
> themselves, then take them through the real underlying steps one by
> one: the installer is a regular program, it reads some data and writes
> it to disk. Assuming it isn't buggy, what it writes just happens to be
> the right thing that will boot an OS at next restart.
>
> When they get that and enlightenment dawns on their faces, then I show
> them wubi... :-)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My God.........
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