> The list is partly a forum for people to discuss things they don't
understand. 
> If it was simple, they wouldn't post.

Exactly. You have no feedback from the people for whom everything went fine
so it is difficult to judge. I had no problem with installing gentoo
although I am no administrator, just a linux power user.

> 
> > If I can survive the initial install, should Gentoo be downhill from
there?

I've found gentoo very easy to manage. emerge stuff works just great. I
prefer it to the way mandrake or suse deals with install files, because you
are never sure that their installer will take your changes into account, or
that it will overwrite your settings.

Configuring linux today is not that hard. Plenty of doc, plenty of helper
and automatic tool. I still know nothing about firewalling, routing, IP and
dynamic adress, but I had dhcp working in 20 seconds (/etc/init.d/dhcpd
start IIRC).

If you have another working ditribution, I suggest installing gentoo from
there. This is what I have done and it has allowed me to still have access
to web and graphics while performing the gentoo installation on my other
hard drive. Reading the doc with mozilla is more comfortable than with
links.

	regards,

	Philippe
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