Linked by Dave Scott on Mon 17th Mar 2003 17:36 UTC
I recently read Dustin Wilson's Newbie Gentoo Review and as a 'n00b' who recently installed Gentoo, I found it to be a good article about Gentoo. It is a very good overview of the installation and configuration process. After reading all the comments about how most people thought or were looking for it to be a newbie walkthrough, I thought that as a 'n00b' who has recently installed Gentoo, I would try to write a little something about installing Gentoo for the newbie.
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Lacking some VERY important details...mostly concerning "flags" and compiling kernel options. I looked at the detailed instructions from gentoo for make.conf and went "whoa"!
Processor types are easy to determine (ppc, i386, etc), but there are other flags that are very specific. If you are not sure you could enable all options, but then it's no longer gentoo, but a bloated distro with everything enabled. Want support for teTex? Even KNOW what teTex is? You better, because you need to set this flag when optimizing. How about liem, gdbm, pic, etc?
There's no discussion in the documentation regarding the pros and cons of having something like .tif built in or not...will I not be able to view jpgs if it's not checked off then I set my make.conf? Anyone? Bueler? Get my drift?
Any serious discussion on this issue? I stopped the install process at this point, and went with knoppix (hd install). Would love to try gentoo, as I have a thinkpad 600, and can use the speed increase.
Greg