On Monday 29 Dec 2014 02:25:04 lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> writes: > > On Thursday, December 04, 2014 11:55:50 PM lee wrote: > >> BTW, can I use xfs for the VM, or will it be difficult to get the VM > >> booted from xfs? > > > > Using PV, not at all. As long as the kernel for the VM has XFS support > > built- in. (This is valid for other filesystems as well) > > Oh that's good to know. I've found that Gentoo comes with ZFS, and if I > can create a ZFS file system from some disks and boot from that without > further ado, that might be pretty cool. > > I tried out the latest Gentoo live DVD ... and I was surprised that the > software it comes with is so old. Libreoffice 3.x? Seamonkey a couple > versions behind? > > Is the software going to be more recent when I actually install?
During installation you will run 'emerge --sync' which will update portage with the latest and greatest for each package ebuild. Then 'emerge --update --newuse --deep --ask world' will install the latest version of any package you may have installed, or install thereafter in your system (like libreoffice, etc.) -- Regards, Mick
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