Subject: Re: Redhat Changes (Gentoo?)
From: Mac Mason (julian_mason@hmc.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 17:24:54 AKST
Gentoo uses a chroot environment to build itself from the ground up; if
you have partitions on your drive available, you can build gentoo by
installing it on one of those partitions and chrooting into it from your
RH install, build, set it up, then modify your grub/lilo to let you pick
which one you want. If /home is its own partition, you could even share
it between the two distros...
Once again; forums.gentoo.org is the source of all knowledge in the
universe.
~Mac~
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:51, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * jonr@destar.net <jonr@destar.net> [031103 10:33]:
> > If you want to be a stud and get all the chicks use slack. If you want
>
> Regardless, my wife says it is still O.K. for me to use slack :-)
>
> Seriously:
> If I could spare the time it takes, I would certainly consider
> Gentoo. My problem being, the time it would take to install and
> configure a new OS is the time I would *not* be using my
> workstation to to gain income.
>
> I'm wondering outloud here and soliciting comments. How difficult
> would it be to quickly 'swap-out' drives so that I could work
> off of my current Red Hat, swap to a different HD boot and then
> spend my 'off-time' installing? (I have a 512-k DSL connection)
>
> Any ideas?
> And how long before Gentoo becomes the 'studly' linux?
>
> > to be Gregs friend use debian. All kidding aside, I have been thinking of
> > this also, Slack I dont think has the momentum it used to have. Suse I
> > would like if they would let me download the latest distro, Debian has its
> > appeal but im not sure if I want to always use unstable to have the latest
> > greatest. Mandrake I can say nothing about because I dont follow it or use
> > it, so my opinion means nothing. RedHat has shifted their distro to
> > something called fedora, I'm not sure about this but soemone could verify
> > it. I do know that Warren Togami from the LUAU lug in Hawaii is the
> > maintainer of this new distro.
> >
> > So I dont know really, im in the same boat as you, I am also wondering
> > what I am going to do. I am begining to see RH as the evil empire of Linux
> > with their removing mp3 support and their subscription based updates. I am
> > leaning towards Slack and Debian myself, more so towards Debian and this
> > is simply because I have never used it and want to learn it. Of course,
> > using freebsd as my desktop and my server OS has crossed my mind but I
> > want to have my feet in both worlds, so I will probably stay with a linux
> > distro as my desktop and keep using freebsd as server fodder.
> >
> > Any other thoughts on this?
> >
> > Good question Jamie,
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
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