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Kensai
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A common problem I've seen with gentoo is that one day you can install it flawlessly but the next day you try to install it in the same way and it might fail.
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isurrender
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Kensai wrote: | | A common problem I've seen with gentoo is that one day you can install it flawlessly but the next day you try to install it in the same way and it might fail. |
For stage1 installs, that is certainly true.
Use stage3. |
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coriolan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Kensai wrote: | | A common problem I've seen with gentoo is that one day you can install it flawlessly but the next day you try to install it in the same way and it might fail. |
Indeed, when it doesn't get working people can make a panic action that breaks it even more. Hopefully the installer will help on this when it's finished. Gentoo is hard to install, but once installed administering Gentoo is much easier than many other distros (depending of course what you want to do). |
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tradenet
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Back to Gentoo. This install (stage 3, I've gotten soft - or smart  ) went very well, no hitches or bugs at all (except the udev thing in the manual). No instability, and unsupervised all-night emerges have gone well.
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Ok did you use "genkernel" or did you manually configure the kernel?
The manual show's a " non-genkernel users" grub.conf that does NOT use udev. |
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Kensai
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| coriolan wrote: |
Indeed, when it doesn't get working people can make a panic action that breaks it even more. Hopefully the installer will help on this when it's finished. Gentoo is hard to install, but once installed administering Gentoo is much easier than many other distros (depending of course what you want to do). |
Thruth you speak. Gentoo is hard to install but once it is running it have the best tools to administer it easily.
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prattrs
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Ok did you use "genkernel" or did you manually configure the kernel?
The manual show's a " non-genkernel users" grub.conf that does NOT use udev. |
I used genkernel. The problem has been discussed in other threads for a while too, so it's not just me. |
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tradenet
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| prattrs wrote: | | Quote: |
Ok did you use "genkernel" or did you manually configure the kernel?
The manual show's a " non-genkernel users" grub.conf that does NOT use udev. |
I used genkernel. The problem has been discussed in other threads for a while too, so it's not just me. |
The problem is you have to compile with the switch --udev
Then you can use "udev" in Grub
you can turn off devfs by using gentoo=nodevfs in grub. |
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