Category Archives: installing

Another Install Story

Posted on 27 May 2008 by

If there is one thing I love, its a good install story. The trial and tribulations of the people who think they know what they’re doing and how badly they screw it up. I actually installed Gentoo this weekend. At … Continue reading →

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The Philoshpy of Gentoo

Posted on 28 December 2007 by

Ever since I loaded up Ubuntu temporarily while waiting for Paludis to release a non-alpha, then failing to install with the alpha, and then reloading Ubuntu I’ve found myself questioning the point. Why Gentoo?  In fact I had a coworker … Continue reading →

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Vim problems and tarballs

Posted on 6 December 2007 by

In lieu of my recent install problems with Gentoo I installed Arch again just so I could have an OS up and running. I plan on trying to install Gentoo again, probably sometime around this weekend. I saw D. Robbins … Continue reading →

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Just give me one that works…

Posted on 4 December 2007 by

Fed up with my ever failing Gentoo install I decided it was time I just start dual booting with another distro I know I can get installed. So I downloaded Arch Linux, figured out how to burn ISOs from the … Continue reading →

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About to give up

Posted on 3 December 2007 by

As previously mentioned I’m in the process of reinstalling Gentoo. Things just never get any better. Apparently somewhere along the way I failed to to do a update-modules which meant I didn’t have a modules.conf file. And then somewhere else … Continue reading →

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Pretending to have Paludis

Posted on 29 November 2007 by

So your to afraid to try Paludis. Which is totally ridiculous but possible. Instead you want to play it safe and stick with Portage. After all the Gentoo devs only want the best for the user like you, right? So … Continue reading →

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The plight of the Gentoo Install

Posted on 27 November 2007 by

After this weekend I can understand why people get excited about distributions like Sabayon. Don’t get me wrong, I by no means recommend it, but the mere fact you don’t have to manually install Gentoo can definitely be a God … Continue reading →

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Linux is the future

Posted on 13 November 2007 by

The title of this post is worn out and maybe a tad misleading. But it still fits. Linux isn’t the future in that all PCs will one day run Linux, Linux is the future in that what people predict Windows … Continue reading →

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Dumb people

Posted on 2 November 2007 by

Riddle me this, A person on IRC gives the output of cpuinfo and asks what version of the install disk should I download? Valid newbie question on #gentoo. I give it the once over and tell him x86. Then suddenly … Continue reading →

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Debian Post Responce

Posted on 24 September 2007 by

I’ve got quite a few comments on my post on Debian, which is always nice. But I now feel the need to more or less defend myself. To set some things straight first off, I was using Debian etch x86_64. … Continue reading →

Posted in installing, wolvix | 10 Comments