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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As the person who brought up the whole discussion on Use flags and the lack of documentation, I thank you all in advance. I will start a fresh install tonight. I will try it on a Thinkpad 600, using the flags and optimizations that another gentoo user forwarded to me. They had the same ones selected that I had highlighted.
I hope to have something to report back on in the morning. Stay tuned and thanks for the help.
Now my main concern is this...my my make.conf, I plan on listing every flag I want, and -'ing the ones I dont need. What will that do to my compile times (compared to just taking out ones I dont need - like 3dfx)?
I look forward to the updated USE flag docs from Gentoo.
GregC