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disk partitioning WILL be needed, but dont worry its not a hard thing to do at all, gentoo's website have very good instructions, there install method is not pretty GUI fluff, but the outline and give specific instrutions on which commands to give, they tell you everything, their instructions are very good. an ISO image does not need an existing OS, what an ISO image is is basically the whole cdrom in one file that can be burned to cd. so all you do is put the cd in your drive and go into bios to select to boot from cd. then thats it,. have the computer boot and it will load the ISO and then your off. disk partitioning is important, and no matter what if you had a previously installed OS or if its a brand new drive, when you are installing a new OS you will always have to play around with the disk partitioning. gentoo is a great distro, my next box i build will be running gentoo, i am not currently using it on anything but a good friend of mine has, and i was impressed with gentoo's presentation, it is a quality distro. however, you dont really sound too familiar with some important topics, i wouldnt recommend against trying gentoo, but its not a unexpierienced user friendly distro. i would suggest that you go for it, and follow all their instructions, most likley things will go fine and you will have a nice new freshly installed os, but if things dont work out, and you are just stuck and no one can help you, suse linux 8.1 is insanely easy to install and setup, i burned an ISO image, booted from that, and did ftp install. it configured everything pretty much on its own, some things here and there i changed, swap space etc...but the simple answer to your question is, yes, all you do is burn the ISO to cdrom and boot from that. good luck.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
linux::distribution
Linux::Distribution(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Linux::Distribution(3pm)
NAME
Linux::Distribution - Perl extension to detect on which Linux distribution we are running.
SYNOPSIS
use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);
if(my $distro = distribution_name) {
my $version = distribution_version();
print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
} else {
print "distribution unknown
";
}
Or else do it OO:
use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);
my $linux = Linux::Distribution->new;
if(my $distro = $linux->distribution_name()) {
my $version = $linux->distribution_version();
print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
} else {
print "distribution unknown
";
}
DESCRIPTION
This is a simple module that tries to guess on what linux distribution we are running by looking for release's files in /etc. It now looks
for 'lsb-release' first as that should be the most correct and adds ubuntu support. Secondly, it will look for the distro specific files.
It currently recognizes slackware, debian, suse, fedora, redhat, turbolinux, yellowdog, knoppix, mandrake, conectiva, immunix, tinysofa,
va-linux, trustix, adamantix, yoper, arch-linux, libranet, gentoo, ubuntu, scientific, oracle enterprise linux and redflag.
It has function to get the version for debian, suse, fedora, redhat, gentoo, slackware, scientific, oracle enterprise linux, redflag and
ubuntu(lsb). People running unsupported distro's are greatly encouraged to submit patches :-)
EXPORT
None by default.
TODO
Add the capability of recognize the version of the distribution for all recognized distributions.
AUTHORS
Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com>, <http://chorny.net> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net> Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-18 Linux::Distribution(3pm)