What good is the minimal Gentoo?

Videoteck · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: What good is the minimal Gentoo?

Yea um long while back I was trying to just make the Gentoo disc (iso images and such) and I couldnt so the Gentoo minimal just sat on my desktop. Then one day I decided to download a different burner software and sure enough I got it on the disc then I booted it up on my computer and it worked then I didnt know what to do after that, and another thing what good is the minimal Gentoo whats the point of it?
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Pete M · Apprentice Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 154

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml

syg00 · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject:

Better start here - doco is provided for a reason. Start with the Handbook - I read it all before I started; you might do well to do likewise.
Do not even contemplate the "quick install guide" - you need the detail of the full handbook. Despite it's name, the "2005.1 handbook" should also be avoided, as it will also only confuse things - you will need a network based install.

Good luck - it ain't as hard as some make out.

reteo · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:00 am Post subject:

The Gentoo Minimal disc's purpose is to have a self-contained environment from which to build your Gentoo system, provided you have a compatible network setup to download the packages as you go, all on a business-card sized CD.

Personally, I don't waste CD space with any Gentoo CD; I just use Knoppix. This way, I have full use of my computer while the compile is proceeding, and Knoppix has all the necessary tools to compile the stage 1 system. *grin* Especially now that Knoppix has the DVD version.
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