Thank you to the idlers in #gentoo on freenode!

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Ravenium · Post by **Ravenium** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:06 pm

Hello,

I just thought I'd give a thumbs up to the people who idle in the #gentoo channel for their quick help to my silly problems today. For some reason I overlooked the fact that the universal livecd (required to boot gentoo) was in a different directory than the actual package cd, something I apparently didn't catch when I was reading the install docs. I was helped quickly and not laughed at (despite the answer being right in the topic, doh!). As a debian convert, I'm more and more happy with Gentoo every day (I'm giving 2004.0 after having played a bit with 1.4 a while back).

Just thought I'd share,

-Rav

Malakai · Post by **Malakai** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:08 pm

Heh, I did the same thing when downloading the new live-cd back in the day, and I've been using gentoo for ages ^_^

I dl'ed that prebuilt packages thing for nothing. Didn't realise they changed the standard install cd to "universal live-cd"

Aurora · Post by **Aurora** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:37 am

s'all good

Count me in on having made the same exact mistake!

Fitzsimmons · Post by **Fitzsimmons** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:47 am

I myself have not made the same mistake, but a few of my converts have. I had to go sort them out when their packages CD wouldn't boot. There might be an error in the install guide, but I haven't checked.

I'm still using my old knoppix CDs or my old gentoo 1.4_rc1 cds that I have lying around for my installs, since I do everything from stage one and have memorized the install process.

CorporalCarrot · Post by **CorporalCarrot** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:51 pm

lol that channel is mental!!!!

dont get me wrong....lots of helpful peeps but its a victim of its own success!!! too many conversations going on at once.....channel output justs zooms past my eyes.....Im fact Im thinking of buying a 22" monitor just so I can run a fullscreen irssi at 1900x1440 to keep track of it all

ps props to Roger55 & Houn recently for their great perseverance with some probs I had.

C