Comments on: Review of Gentoo 2008.0

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:21:20 +0000

The comment about the boot partition is incorrect. I stopped reading at that point. Please delete this misleading statement. It is not fair the Linux nor the readers who may simply believe your statment. That might have been true years ago when older bioses could only address the first 64MBs but I doubt this is the case here.

By: Marco Di Fresco

Marco Di Fresco — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:47:39 +0000

Dirk R. Gently,
thanks for the answer.

Unfortunately I do not longer have Gentoo installed as I did the test on my main (and only) computer, but I just printed your suggestions and I will take them in consideration the next time I will test Gentoo (and as I promised on the post, I will, since I am very interested to experience the performance gain due to the Gentoo optimization).

By: Dirk R. Gently

Dirk R. Gently — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:27:00 +0000

Damn… sorry about the install process, looks like that was no fun at all – the installer should just work.

If it’s any help and if you still have gentoo installed, it shouldn’t need much more to do as root:

I would guess a desktop environment isn’t installed (KDE, Gnome…), try:

emerge –pretend –verbose kde-base/kde
or
emerge –pretend –verbose gnome-base/gnome

If root login is still available, perhaps all you have to do is configure the desktop environment to boot. If a desktop environment isn’t added, there’s a few guides on how to add it (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook).

The most reliable way to install gentoo is to use the Minimal Install CD and install manually. This has a bit of a learning curve though isn’t real difficult.

Gentoo Handbook
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop

Anyways… good luck… nice to hear the post.