Re: gentoo

good advice, will do that. thanks

mike
--- Kevin <plug-discuss@firstpacket.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:26, mike hoy wrote:
> > I decided to start with the easy way
> > and later , once i'm more up to date with the
> whole
> > process, go ahead and compile it myself and choose
> > exactly what is to be compiled
>
> Nothing wrong with that. It's the best way to
> learn. Let genkernel get
> things up and running, then spend your time
> playing/learning instead of
> installing. You probably know this, but now that
> you have a working
> kernel, you can compile new kernels and try them out
> by adding them to
> your bootloader. If things go wrong, you can always
> boot back into your
> current working kernel.
>
> > i'm trying to emerge xorg-x11.
> > i'm having some
> > internet probs and i guess that's cuasing it to
> freeze
> > during the emerge.
>
> Try `emerge -f` to do a "fetchonly". This will
> fetch the package source
> and any dependencies down to your local box. Once
> you have everything
> downloaded, go back and do a normal `emerge`.
>
> ...Kevin
>
>
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