Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and KISS ?

[arnuld <geek.arnuld@gmail.com>]

> On 5/18/07, Mauro Faccenda <faccenda@gmx.net> wrote:

> AFAIK, Gentoo filosophy is about choices.
>
> If you want it simple, you can keep it simple. If you don't, you can do it
> too.

oooooh.....

> And you discovered what was going wrong in your first 10 installations, right?
> Can you tell if it was well documentated? If it was your mistake in "jumping"
> some topics of the handbook?

no, it is NOT in the handbook. there were many mistakes. i only remember the 3:

1.) i had a Serial-ATA drive and AMD64 on ASUS with VIA chipsets.
kernel-compilation part of Handbook asks to choose PPP options and MCE
features etc etc but it did not tell to select VIA82xx and VIA SATA
and VIA PATA options for serial driver.  any Serial-ATAhard-disk will
not boot properly without them. (of course, others will have some
other motherboards, Intel e.g., but we can leave that to the user for
finding the specific SATA and PATA drivers inthe kernel.)

2.) i entered "/dev/hda" instead of "/dev/sda" in "/etc/fstab. my
mistake, of course.

3.) i entered "/dev/sda1 / ext3" when i had reiserfs fro my /. this
too was my mistake


> I am a experienced Linux user, and I can tell: if not 100%, something very
> close of it of the problems I had in Gentoo installation was due to my
> mistakes.

yep, 99% it was *my* mistake.

> But I don't blame Gentoo. ;)

hey.. i did not blame Gentoo in my earlier post.


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