Do you still use the handbook?

[CoderMan]

Just a point of curiosity: How many of you out there still need to refer to the handbook during installation? And how many of you know the installation process so well that you don't need to refer to it?

I'd make this a poll, but I can't seem to find the poll button.
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[John R. Graham]

Polls work for regular users in Gentoo Chat and Off the Wall only. Might want to restart there.

- John
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[CoderMan]

Ah. Okay. Forget this post then!
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[Roman_Gruber]

Well each time I install a notebook, I only use notebooks I use the handbook and the internet!

Well I know the basic steps but I refer to the handbook and go through. Some things are very clear.

Basically I use first a gparted cd to set up partitions because I dont know how to calculate cylinders to get exact size (e.g. 25gb) partitions.

To set up network and encryption I use the internet.

Well I dont know how often do I set up a box.

My old notebook, 1.8ghz turion: 2 or 3 times
My new notebook: at least 3 or 4 times.

But some thins arent documented so well. E.g. encryption of the harddisc or using encrypted swap space.

Well now I dont have a swap space, because I dont know how to set this up with tuxonice. Well It doesnt matter because the notebook has a hardware issue and so I install in the next days 2 cheaper notebooks each cost around 500 euros.

The handbook of gentoo is good. You can find the related steps.

I have set up Opensuse linux, but the documentation there is worse. How to install updates and so on
Redflag Linux is a pain in the ass, because I cant read chinese
Debian, I wanted to try it but I gave up then, when I started to read about it. 3 years old software, ...
Ubuntu + Arch linux: at least easy to isntall and to update, but in each, no hardware acceleration four your graphics card.
gentoo: I started 3 or 4 years ago again with linux and I read in wikipedia about distributions and gentoo was the only source based distro. If I wanted a binary distro, where is the point to switch to linux, I could have stayed in windows world. Binary distros have the same problems as windows have, they are so unflexible.

[kernelOfTruth]

I don't use it that often anymore like in the years before (I started 2004), there are from time to time still things that I need to look up at the handbook or wiki

but this doesn't happen too frequently anymore - usually I need to look up things every few months (when updating the system or setting up something new)
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[tomk]

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads, please continue the discussion here: Do you still use the handbook?
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