• nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    I can agree that installing Arch is easier than installing a debloated Windows. But Gentoo? I spent 2 weeks trying to install it, but couldn’t get past partitioning the drive.

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      1 month ago

      …paritioning the drives is exactly the same for Arch as it is Gentoo lol if you did it for Arch, why can’t you do it for Gentoo?

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        1 month ago

        I meant, I partitioned the drives, but could not complete the steps after that. I couldn’t use that tar file to compile the kernel.

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          Well, configuring the kernel is where things get tricky and is the major difference between the Gentoo and Arch installation, so that makes sense.

          To be annoyingly pendantic, you did get past partitioning the drivea, then!

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        1 month ago

        I think “couldn’t get past partitioning the drive” means they managed to partition the drive but couldn’t get beyond it ie couldn’t do any more after that.

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      1 month ago

      I’m genuinely curious as an Arch user. Does gentoo not come with fdisk?

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        As a Gentoo user who has used Arch in the past, I have no clue what problems this commenter could have run into because paritioning the drives is exactly the same for both distributions… if they were able to figure it out for Arch, then they can do it for Gentoo

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          1 month ago

          Or you know, gparted, arch bootable, Windows Drive Management, Ubuntu…

          I mean out of all the things I’d THINK you’d have trouble in, partitioning and formatting is…. not one of them.