[olug] frustration: first Slackware, now Gentoo

[Brian Roberson]

ahh... nevermind neal... he is just a whiner ;-)

neal... take two steps back.... I know your capabilities, but I also know
your lack of patience. bring your laptop by sometime and I will hold your
hand if you want ;-)



PS ... THIS IS A PERSONAL POKE, NEAL AND I GO WAY BACK.. ( keep the flames
to yourself ;-)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Warren" <thechunk at cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] frustration: first Slackware, now Gentoo


> I wish I could help I have had such a different experience with slackware.
I keep current of the slackware-current changes and burn a cd anytime I need
to do an install.  I have never had a hard time. Infact a slackware iso is
my rescue image because it works so well.  Anything I can do to help please
don't hesitate to ask.
>
> -Jon Warren
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:00:38PM -0600, neal r wrote:
> >
> >
> >   I got fed up with Slack 8.1 after installing about six times and I
> > downloaded Gentoo. The CD created from the iso is not bootable, and
> > there aren't even *cryptic* instructions on the disk describing how to
> > make it go.
> >
> >   I could have installed 52 FreeBSD boxes in the time I've been messing
> > with one Linux install *grrrrrrrr*
> >
> >
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