[Tfug] Dual boot linuxs

[Keith Smith]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hilton" <lists@particlewars.com>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Dual boot linuxs


> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:14:05 -0700
> "Keith Smith" <klsmith@ultrasw.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Upon reading this, I took a look at gentoo.  The Documentation is
> > excellent and now I'm curious.
> > So Chris can you share why you are so impressed?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Keith
>
> Try it and see.  Here is the hype:
> http://www.gentoo.org/index-about.html  I haven't found any of it to
be
> BS.  It works better than advertised.  My gentoo system is more
> flexible, faster, safer, and smaller than any distro I've used.  Its
the
> only linux I've installed (using an installer) that did not install
> "dependencies" that weren't, "defaults" that shouldn't have been,
and
> holes I didn't open.
>

I took a look at the site yesterday and was very impressed by the
documentation.  So I downloaded the 16MB ISO and burned it to a CD.  I
only had 30 minutes to play so I started the install knowing I would
have to abort.

I was very impressed.  The docs gave the exact insmod modules to
configure pcmcia.  Once this was done it found my NIC and two commands
later along with configuring resolv.conf and my network connection was
functional.

I got to fdisk before having to stop.

I have installed both Mandrake and Debian on my laptop.  Mandrake
configured pcmcia but not my NIC and failed while installing X.  Harry
configured my NIC on Sunday (Thanks Harry). Debian did not configure
pcmcia nor my NIC.

So far it seems gentoo has done a better job.  From the docs it
appears gentoo is doing package management much like Debian.


> A few considerations:
> 1. Its not really for novice users.  I'm not sure I'd recommend it
to
> intermediate users.
> 2. You need bandwidth.  Your entire system is downloaded as needed.
> 3. The install took about 3 hours to build on a PII 366 w/256M ram
and
> 1Meg up/down dsl.
> 4. It is non-compliant with init V, HFS and other standards.
>

I think I would consider myself intermediate.  I think I will learn a
few things while installing gentoo because it seems to make you
configure everything by hand.  So far the docs have been excellent in
showing every step.  I did not have to figure out what was left out
because something did not work.  I do agree that some familiarity with
how things are configured manually is a must so one can follow the
docs.

I was guessing at a 2 hour install.  Thanks for the info.

Keith



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