From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2OsV-0002Zu-T9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:50:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j797n9dh001443; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:49:09 GMT Received: from symler1.mail.eds.com (symler1.mail.eds.com [207.169.189.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j797jYvm004860 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 07:45:35 GMT Received: from symlir1.mail.eds.com (symlir1.mail.eds.com [192.85.216.71]) by symler1.mail.eds.com (8.13.2/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j797k01p011333 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:46:01 +1000 Received: from symlir1.mail.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by symlir1.mail.eds.com (8.13.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j797jdSW012922 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:45:39 +1000 Received: from aubwm051.apac.corp.eds.com ([134.251.159.13]) by symlir1.mail.eds.com (8.13.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j797jd5w012912 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:45:39 +1000 Received: from aubwm010.apac.corp.eds.com ([134.251.176.90]) by aubwm051.apac.corp.eds.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:45:39 +1000 Received: from aubwm208.apac.corp.eds.com ([134.251.176.248]) by aubwm010.apac.corp.eds.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:45:40 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message 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: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:45:38 +1000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges Thread-Index: AcWZxFrx8Oyqs3b8TduvhQhEBoCWUACoQWCw From: "Tibdixious, Daiajo" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2005 07:45:40.0177 (UTC) FILETIME=[56A82C10:01C59CB6] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j797jYvm004860 X-Archives-Salt: 7598a8e6-a220-45eb-896d-40b585dec552 X-Archives-Hash: 35b3f3f4d470225c245cf741f572c51c Walter Dnes [mailto:waltdnes@waltdnes.org] Sent: Friday, 5 August 2005 11:41 PM > Even with that background, my transition to Gentoo wasn't 100% smooth. >If I had tried jumping from Windows direct to Gentoo, without 4+ years >of linux usage, I would've been lost. I think you are assuming that a Gentoo user would leap right in to use all of Gentoo's features, which is not necessarily the case. I've worked on VMS for 20 years (so the command line is not unusual), and done a few years of C programming on Tru64 Unix, and some trivial user admin (before even the shadow idea came along), and all this was more than 10 years ago. I've been on windows for the last 5 years, telneting to a VMS box to do work. I followed the AMD64 installation guide carefully, and the only thing that I fell over on was that the live CD makes the drive it is in the main drive, while after you boot off the hard drive, the CD drives may be in a different order. I thought my drive was broken, and had to manually frig with fstab, which I would have preferred not to do. The guide also implies that if you use genkernel, it will be just like the live CD boot, and either I stuffed that up or its lying. Anyway, at the moment I'm just playing KDE games. I also put the "power ride" badge on my Windows desktop at work. Oh, I also had SUSE briefly on the system, nice graphical installation, reiserfs kept failing fsck spuriously, finally booted, changed the root password, would not boot again, would not let me logon as root. Anyway, did not learn anything. During the Gentoo install I learned heaps. P.S. Setting up GRUB was by far the easiest part. -- daiajo@acslink.net.au Contra Valere -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list