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[Ciaran Hamilton]

Hi,

> > > I want to try Gentoo linux, can anyone tell me what I need 
> > to download?
> > > 
> > > Do I download the packagecd iso's or the livecd iso's? 
> > What's the difference?
> > > 
[snip]
> IMHO LiveCD Minimal:  You'll want to pull the packages off the web as
> you'll end up re-compiling many of them anyway. The minimal CD doesn't
> come with packages or a tarball. You 'll wget that off the web to. It
> will require patience. Really, it is just about where you want to spend
> your time downloading. This is my prefence as it gets the freshest info.

The problem with using either of the ISOs is that it means you can't do
anything else on your computer that you might normally do while you
compile Gentoo - and if you're going from stage1, that's an important
point as it'll take a long time.

You don't actually need either of the ISOs, really. The best thing to
do, in my opinion, is to go through the installation guide simply using
your own existing distro. In other words, you'd partition/format your
drive, download the stage tarball you want, untar it into the root
partition, and chroot into it just as you would had you booted from the
ISO. There's absolutely no difference as the ISO is really just a bare
shell anyway, and the advantage of doing it within your current distro
is that you can minimise the window that's installing Gentoo and carry
on using Firefox, Gaim, and so on as you would normally do. Just carry
out the steps as per the installation guide and you're there. :)

 - Ciaran.

> JSR/
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