I tried installing Gentoo Linux a few days ago, and this is what happened.
During install, I was adamant to do the stage 1 – or the ‘compile-everything-from-source’ — option, since I do not have the time to download everything at the moment. I settled for stage 3 — files existing within the distribution CD are the ones used to set up the system.
The files that were installed from the CD went without a hitch. However, when time came to get packages from the ‘net, I encountered an error.
Maybe it was related to a package that was being downloaded at the moment (it might have failed checksum verification), but nevertheless the installation was stopped and there was no option to recover from the error.
I’m back to slackware on my machine right now. I’ll just try the install process at some other time.
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