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Gentoo has a GUI installer

Gentoo has a GUI installer

Posted Jun 4, 2008 0:26 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

Had you tried the 2008.0 beta, you might've had a different experience. Clicking the 2008.0 handbook reveals a list of installer choices, one of which is the GTK+ installer. It still assumes you know what you're doing, but it's good at saving time.


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Gentoo has a GUI installer

Posted Jun 5, 2008 0:40 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]

Have you tried it? I did, about 10 times before I realized (I'm a slow learner) that it wasn't
me making the mistake, the installer just doesn't work. It's a known issue and one of the
items that was brought up when the whole "gentoo foundation allowed to expire" event happened.

Gentoo has a GUI installer

Posted Jun 5, 2008 0:53 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

Yes, I have tried it. It's worked for me every time. I understand there seem to be some
hardware-specific problems as well as issues with strange partitioning setups.

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