I look after multiple systems (all gentoo/doze at the moment, but other distros -except debian - over the past ~10 years) Trust me, there are a lot of failures in amongst the success stories like yours. I am not saying things have not improved (/dev/hdX is nice when it works), often a clean, new install will work out of the box (like yours) but its the whole thing that needs attention, standardisation and a general cleanup. I would also wait until your install has aged a couple of years or so like some of mine (first gentoo was 1.0, still going though has been incrementally upgraded to a current 2.6) and look back on the travails you have had!
If you just installed it and "it works", are you using 2.6 or 2.4, scsi,ATAPI,hdX,/dev/cdroms/cdromX and is it working with/without DMA, can you burn as a user, does the users favourite CD burning software work, how about multiple users. If all this works, you are quite lucky in my experience of the current state of the art. Windoze users are luckier in this way - theirs mostly just works - though I have had cases where I had to reinstall the whole OS in order to get it to work with users because of permission problems with the initial install of a package! BillK On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:56 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, but this is a real pain for the average > > user (gentoo or otherwise). And dont say if you tweak this and tune > > that it will work, thats bunk, of course I do that I do that, and it > > will work, but not for long. Its fixing the whole CD burning mess thats > > needed. > > Might I be so bold as to ask "what mess?". I have been using Linux for > some years, Gentoo only for about 9 months, and bought my first CD/DVD > burner at Christmas. I just installed it (placed into drive bay, > connected up IDE and power cables), emerged k3b (which pulled in lots > of dependencies) and it 'just worked'. I did not have to 'tweak' any > settings (OK, I did read the USE flag descriptions and set the ones > which looked appropriate before emerging k3b) > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
