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NoBonus:
I found the Slackware .iso files on an ftp server (finally). I really am torn about giving up on the Gentoo project, but it is just too confusing. With Slackware, can I download the programs I want onto a cdr (like openoffice) and load them from that cdr to my OS? or does the process require some other methods?
NoBOnus
SirPoonga:
Fedora is Redhat. Redhat is not longer in the free linux market. They are strictly enterprise now. They off shooted the free distro to the Fedora project.
It's easy to install. I've had no issues with Redhat for the 6+ years of using it.
My first distro was debian, which back int he day I installed using the 3 floppy install off the net thing. Being on a campus LAN helps you be able to do that :) Debian is pretty cool. I installed it on my 486 laptop I picked up. It doesn;t seem to have changed uch. It's a good distro if you don't mind the confusing package system during the install.
NoBonus:
I'm still thinking about keeping Gentoo, but the install is such a nightmare... Maybe I should try again... any ideas on what I should do? Try to stick with Gentoo or switch to Slackware? Such a dilema.
barvaz:
--- Quote from: NoBonus on June 14, 2004, 02:22:26 pm ---I'm still thinking about keeping Gentoo, but the install is such a nightmare... Maybe I should try again... any ideas on what I should do? Try to stick with Gentoo or switch to Slackware? Such a dilema.
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NoBonus,
Have you followed the Gentoo install guide to the letter? It is really an excellent document and if followed precisely, I think even my grandma can install Gentoo with it. Well, ok, my grandma can't but you surely can.
Stage 3 should install without trouble, I don't think it is much more difficult than Slackware. The Gentoo forums are a superb source for Gentoo and Linux related information, probably any newbie question you may possibly have is already answered there. New questions are answered within minutes. For live help, Gentoo IRC channel (#gentoo on irc.freenode.net) has over 800 people at almost any time; people are very helpful there too. This forum has plenty of Gentoo experts as well, so it seems. Between all these I don
GadgetGeek:
This will probably be done too late for you NoBonus, but I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a minimal machine (old AMD K6 200) and setting it up to run advanceMame and advanceMenu on it. advance uses SDL (kinda like DirectX) and does not require that X be installed which will keep the install down to a minimum. I'm documenting this as I go and hoping to put up a small webpage describing it when I get done (and will post to the BYOAC forums as well) Other things (like my job and family) are keeping this a slow project. I'm hoping to get the kernel config done tonite.
Disclaimer...I am not a linux expert by any definition of the word. I've done the basic install for several other systems and played with knoppix, but Gentoo works for the way I like to think. I do have another system on my lan that is using gentoo, most just as a sql server for the other machines on the lan and there were some roadblocks setting it up. But as barvaz says, the gentoo forums are great. I had a problem with the 2004.1 distribution not recognizing my network card and I found a thread (stickied even) that described my problem exactly and how to get around it.
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