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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I just finished my Gentoo install, am using it now, in fact! From Stage 1! ;-)
What I liked was the power over the compiler and packages... Compared to RH8phoebe and Mandrake, it definitely peforms better. (Partly due to the pre-empt kernel patches and partly due to the gcc optimzations.)
Installation is very straight forward and I learned alot along the way. Which is really what I'm in it for anyway.
Yet it was a little confusing regarding the flags, masks and different init scripts... (I've been using Red Hat & Mandrake Linux since ~'95)
Bumps I ran into involved devfs, which I re-enabled since it seems to be required. That's OK, just another tool to learn.
Another bump was installing it on my laptop. I ended up installing the HD in another PC and working on it there...
A FreeBSD/OpenBSD styled install or a floppy/network install would be a big step forward...