PenguinBiker

installing becomes a pain when it comes time to partition if you want to preserve the current distro it is a little hassle, if youdon't it becomes hell

First of all, i would suggest installing from knoppix or morphix (morphix is cool) because its simple to install from a bootable CD. (installing from a distro thats on the harddrive can be a pain)

what i'm useing knoppix for is installing gentoo, i decided that i would make a temporary install of knoppix on my harddrive and gave it a 2.8 GB LVM partition which i can easily swipe when i'm done installing gentoo. speaking of which does anyone know how to setup grub in knoppix???? or should i just install grub through chrooted gentoo base install and set it up to boo tknoppix that way, them when i'm done i can add the gentoo entries, does anyone know if that would work?

Quote: You can if you do the complete stage 3 + GRP (Gentoo Reference Platform) but really, it's not worth it. If you're going to install Gentoo do the Stage 1 install. it'll take a while but you'll develop a better appreciation for what Gentoo is all about, learn a fair bit about Linux and get the satisfaction of knowing the system you're using at the end was built with your own hands to your needs and not to encompass the needs of millions of people. i agree, my first gentoo install was a stage 3 install. afterword i swiped it and did a stage 1 install and i liked it alot better (much faster on my system) right now i'm doing yet another stage 1 install because i screwed up my hard drive with fdisk (deleted the wrong partition then saved, instead of getting rid of an extra storage partition i killed /usr ) while a stage 3 or stage 3 + GRP install is faster the time you save is not (in my opinion) worth what you lose by not installing with stage 1 or at least stage 2 however there are many people who have a stage 3 +GRP install and are just fine with it. also after you complete a stage 1 install you have a high chance of becoming infected with the "Gentoo Experiance"

i recomend installing with knoppix over the x86 live cd's (but that's just what i prefer) i screwed up my install with fdisk so right now i'm doing a stage-1 install with knoppix because setting up a dial-up connection is ALOT easier (KPPP) also you have fully functional system while you install so you can still check your email, do your homework play a few kde games while your systems compiles (which is VERY long in my case with dial-up) it also helps to be able to see a konsole window and the install documentation side by side

i'm a junior at portage central high school

lets see.... i started with mandrake used that for a few versions then i used SuSE 8.2 pro for almost 2 years (before i took suse off i had 421 days of uptime) then i tried redhat for about 2 days, didn't like it to much and now i'm currently run Gentoo 1.4, because gentoo is faster also somewhere in there i ran Slack and knoppix (knoppix only lasted about two days, i didn't like it-- it was too simplistic and it looked too much like windows to start out with. which it was designed to do but i didn't like it well i have to get to class.

;( i've downloaded a few mutators and skins and i put them in the right directories but none of them are there when i start the game. what do i have to do to get them to work? i run SuSe 8.2 pro PenguinBiker

i'm recently switched from SuSE 8.2 pro to gentoo and i like it, portage is sweet i also like how fast it is, i don't know about its speed vs slackware My first install i just used the gaming sources but after a couple of days i went back and compiled my own kernel one downpoint i found is that it uses nano for the default text editor but that is easy to change also don't expect to have a quick install especially if you have dialup (it took me a little over two week of download time from a stage 2 install) but you can get it installed in one day if you do a stage 3 GRP install

whats so wonderful about linux is that you can make anything work with enough work. right now i'm trying to get me SiS integrated sound working in gentoo

I'm currently running SuSe 8.2 pro (been running suse 2 years now)and i am thinking of switching over the debian or gentoo. i'll be useing it for photo editing and lots of gaming oh and good usb support is inportant to me Specs - CPU - athlon xp 1700+ - architecture - i386 - 2 40 gb hard drives - Atapi 16x DVD-ROM - Lite-on 32x burner - GeForce4 Ti 4200 - 256 ddr memory - SiS900 10/100 Ethernet - SiS7012 PCI sound

i know the modem works i jsut have having trouble getting it to work in the install so i resorted to a stage3 GRP install and i'm going to get my modem working after i have the rest of my system working

hey check this out apaerently steve ballmer is scared of linux and is admiting it it seems strange how he at first says linux is a major threat and a few lines down say that linux is only "good enough"

ok, what does ^^^^^that have to do whith this thread? if you want to talk to one person specifically you should try a private message

alot of things in windows just don't add up, literatry (ok i know thats spelled wrong. can you even tell what word it is?) like when you have a 40 gig harddrive (it even showed up as a 40 gig drive in windows) and there is 23 gigs free and 8 gigs used Where did the other 9 gigs go? (this happend to me with win xp a while ago, when i got my computer i ran dual boot win xp and mandrake each having a 40 gig hd to themselves, windows i'm proud to say hasn't touched my computer for over a year and a half) also in other ways, earlier in this thread i was talking about one of my teachers computer. one of the schools "tech people" as almost everyone calls them added ram to the computer, and when it booted up the cdrom drive worked just fine. THATS ALL HE DID, ADD MEMORY i watched him do it. Before that it thought that the cdrom was either a floppy or a corrupted cdrom drive HOW WOULD ADDING MEMORY FIX THAT? ;( ? and that is one of the hundreds of reasons why i try as hard as i can to avoid anything made by or made in part by microsoft. if anyone has learned anything by my ravings it should be this: windows runs about as well as an 80 year old drunk man in a 1000 meter dash i'm not done yet, only tired

ehhhhh its speeding up (since i joined)

i like how in linux you can place things where you want and they work do that with windows and you can make it crash, and burn.

i like how if windows doesn't have drivers for some hardware it will use "the closest match" and that almost never works it just makes it harder to get it set up and the cycle begins (my teachers computer now thinks the cd-rom is a corrupted hd, why the hell it thinks that i have no clue its setting up a cd-rom drive so it asks you to insert the f'ing windows install cd ;( )

in some cases hardware detection in linux can be better than in windows i'm currently working on my jewlry teachers computer which thinks the cdrom drive is a floppy :x but thats windows for you. lately my only hardware detection problems have only been my moniter (its a kds flat crt) i might not have bought it if at the time i had known that "KDS" stands for korean data systems. but anyway back a little bit closer to the topic i use linux simply because it is already better than everything else out there (i like it better than OSX because of its flexability) my last install of suse i would feel sorry for the newbie that touched it i had 6 partitions on my main hd (its a single user computer) and things as someone in KLUG (kalamazoo linux users group) said "were in the wrong place" because of where things were on partitions but it worked for my and i knew exactly where things were. i'm installing gentoo new becasue its the laatest and greatest shiny thing (i have other more intelligent reasons) just useing linux doesn't involve a big learning curve anymore like it used to with some distros depending on what you do you can completly avoid using the terminal (i have yet to find a user who does this) well i have to go to class now ;(

i have two hard drives in my box the original purpose being useing a dual boot with linux and xp i would sujest that you force yourself to do as many things as possible on linux. i did this and after a few months i dropped xp completly i now use the 2nd hd for storage (divx movies, MP3s backups ect.) if you can force youself to move as far away from windows as possible the better off you will be.

i think that if you had spent the time to learn it you would have liked linux if not mandrake try SuSE or Redhat but don't give up distros can be VERY different from each other, try a few before you give up

i've heard alot of people who have had problems with linksys cards what distro do you use?

i would sugjest moving to AIM, its the biggests intant message network out there (they also have a native linux client but i would suggest useing gaim or kopete) but thats just me i personaly try to avoid anything with M$'s name on it

ok i got gentoo yesterday and i stated to install it but i ran into a problem i'm a little confused on how to setup a dialup modem during the install how do you do it? gentoo linux for athlon xp i have a best data v.92/v.44 56k modem[/img]

Linux does have a ways to go in user friendlyness but it is taking that distance in leaps and bounds (i mean suse and redhat can be downright simple to install if you don't choose more advanced options) also simple to run you just have to learn a new interface the people that talk about how hard suse is to just run (i'm not talking about console commands just running it) are treating it like windows microsoft is losing money and i think that they will just continue to lose more, as more and more people become aware of the better options like macs and linux. well i'm going to stop for a while before i continue to rant and rave about M$