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edscoble:

--- Quote from: M3gaBigh ---if your partition gets corrupted you can easily format it and start over. So on that note another word of advice: back everything up, it's easier to actualy start off from a blank HDD anyway.
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actually I think I remember you can boot Ubuntu from CD?

I booted OS X from DVD when my laptop was dodgy

elcapitan:
Yeah, try a LiveCD first. See if you like it enough.

I'm working on a project this year involving Ubuntu and Xen paravirtualisation  for scientific computing on a cluster, and Ubuntu has (so far) stood up to the test. It's certainly been a lot easier to deal with than Gentoo, which is what I use for my dual-boot machine at home.

Seriously. Gentoo is an awesome learning experience, but as a day-to-day OS? Not until it learns to stop sneakily putting new versions of toolchain components in random emerges.

nihilist:
Don't unmask the ~x86 architecture, and you won't have problems.  Or find a stable version of the toolchain that you like, and lock out everything else.

elcapitan:
I actually had to unmask some of the ~x86 architecture for some reason while building the system - that might have caused some chaos.

How would I go about "locking out everything else"?

nihilist:
Find out the version of the toolchain you have (gcc/glibc/kernel/etc), and then mask them in /etc/portage/package.mask

To mask anything over gcc-3.4.6-r1, you'd do something like this:
>sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1

That way you can stick with things, regardless of whether new packages come out.  Also, you should be pretty careful about when you do an upgrade...  Always pretend first, see what might be installed, etc.

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