{"id":151,"date":"2006-03-03T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/test-of-gtk-installer-vmware-2-gentoo-0\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:42:53","slug":"test-of-gtk-installer-vmware-2-gentoo-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/test-of-gtk-installer-vmware-2-gentoo-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Test of gtk+ installer: VMWare 2, Gentoo 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I tried the gtk+ based graphical installer on a VMWare virtual machine. I am sad to say it failed painfully &#8211; and did so after many hours of emerging and compiling.  Part of the problem was in the fact that I had selected to install enlightenment, fluxbox and blackbox (to play around with some different wm&#8217;s I hadn&#8217;t messed with previously) and the installer chose to install those <em>and<\/em> gnome <em>and<\/em> kde. Needless to say, it was many hours to go. Thankfully (?) after about 4 hours the installer failed on some ebuild or other (I don&#8217;t recall what it was right now) and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>I tried it again. With the <em>exact same results<\/em>. The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So, now I have a working VMWare install of Gentoo 2006.0 using the minimal install disk and am building enlightenment, fluxbox and blackbox the &#8220;older fashioned&#8221; Gentoo way &#8211; via a simple emerge call.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: VMWare: 2, Gentoo Graphical Installer: 0, Gentoo minimal installer: The winner by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I tried the gtk+ based graphical installer on a VMWare virtual machine. I am sad to say it failed painfully &#8211; and did so after many hours of emerging and compiling. Part of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[156,155],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-os","tag-linux","tag-os"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-2r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}