[colug-432] Installing From Source

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

Hi Randy, 

After talking about installing stuff from source, I saw the 
following on COLUG's mailing list. 

Jim

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:13:35 -0500, Bill Baker <bill_chris at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Your experience with Gentoo reminds me of this quote from bash.org:
> 
> <@insomnia> it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
> <@insomnia> cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1
> /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile &&
> emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system
> && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd
> /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install &&
> emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp
> /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi
> /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
> <@insomnia> that's the first one
> 
> On 02/21/2012 07:55 AM, William Yang wrote:
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