Gentoo ahoy!

Due to a cockup of awesome proportions, I'm currently installing gentoo on my machine at home. I won't go into the full gory details, but I fucked up something to do with X, ending up with a broken configuration. This led me to pondering trying gentoo, instead of working out what I'd buggered up and fixing it. So I dutifully put the gentoo cd in, went through the early stages of the install, making sure that my cable modem was properly dealt with (I don't think I've ever had a more painless network config, $ dhcpcd eth0. Wow, that's complex :)), got to the bit where you set up your filesystems and accidentally formatted what had been /home, rather than /. D'oh!!! As you can imagine I was quite traumatised by this, and decided that the only thing for it was to plunge onwards and hope for the best. So far it's been a walk in the park. Everything has downloaded and compiled quite happily. I left it this morning with the task of emerging the base system. I don't know how long that will take, and once that's done, I'll need to start on X, KDE libs, Gnome libs, a windowmanager of some description (prolly xfce or blackbox) and some apps. I think it would be nice to see how minimal I can make this box. I shall once again be using the likes of pine, and probably running the system at runlevel 3. I'm just hoping gentoo doesn't prove too scary for me. It shouldn't, I fumbled my way through RedHat 5.0 after all, but there's still the nagging doubt. If it does I can always go back to Mandrake 9, reluctantly.

Damn you, Nattie!

( Survey from ladyrednose )

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