Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 24 June 2011 16:58:25 Mark Knecht wrote: >As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right > now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped > him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, > didn't include all the required /d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:54, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:52, walt wrote: --snippage-- >> >> Yes, it's a trivial fix (everything's trivial if you know how to do it :) >> >> The /dev directory (before udev starts) is missing the /dev/console >> device -- or maybe it's the /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:52, walt wrote: > On 06/24/2011 04:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Mark Knecht writes: >> >>>    As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right >>> now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped >>> him install Gentoo. The tarballs st

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >>    As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right >> now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped >> him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, >> did

[gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread walt
On 06/24/2011 04:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >>As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right >> now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped >> him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, >> didn't inclu

[gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: >As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right > now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped > him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, > didn't include all the required /dev stuff in the stage3 tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I fully agree and `SystemRescueCD' is exactly what I ended up > using still failed to get a working gentoo vm though.  Why is it > such a bitch to install gentoo into a guest vm? > Hi Harry, You've said this a couple of times that Gen

[gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller writes: > On 24 June 2011, at 02:02, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I just happened to run into a situation where rsync would have been >> really handy to have on board while booting a minimal install iso. >> >> I was surprised to find rsync was not amongst the onboard tools. >> >> Isn't rsy