pk wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>>> Don't know about the GTK+ installer (which you should not use anyway)
>> Now I'm a bit buffled... why not?
>
> Some reasons are:
>
> - most Gentoo purists (and I fairly agree) say that it's against the true
> spirit of Gentoo, where you learn by doing things by hand (as in the
> traditional install). Using a graphical installer would be like installing
> redhat or (god forbid) windows.
>
> - the project was experimental, and development seems stalled now (latest
> news are from 5-2007).
>
> - I seem to remember some users had troubles with it, while the manual
> method has always worked fine.

I figured that since I'm doing a networkless install (for speed's sake),
the GTK installer might be a good choice since basically all I needed
was copying the stage 3 binaries and portage snapshot from the LiveDVD;
the GTK installer does that. Since I'm trying to test rebuilding the
whole system with GCC 4.3, avoiding the build with GCC 4.2 first seemed
like a good idea.

Next time I'll probably use the command line installer, especially if I
don't plan to update the compiler right after initial installation.
This time around, the plan I followed was:

1) A simple, networkless install with the GTK installer; build nothing,
just copy the binaries from DVD.
2) sync and emerge latest glibc and portage.
3) emerge gcc 4.3 and switch to it.
4) emerge world (which is just the base system)

And from there learn how to use and set-up the system and work around
GCC 4.3 build problems.