Where do you go after the handbook?

[Carl]

Hello,

I finally got dsl, and decided to give gentoo a shot. I downloaded an
iso image
of an install Cd, burned it, and installed. The CD only had stage 3.
I followed
the instructions in the Gentoo handbook for x86, and I got a system up
and running.
Funny thing is, even though the live Cd was able to get on the net, my
system can't,
though when I chrooted from the live system I was able to do emerge.
Also, the
handbook doesn't say anything about getting X-windows up.

Previously, I had used Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch
to build a
very nice distro for myself, that did pretty much everything I wanted
(except I haven't
figured out how to get it to work with DSL, I used slackware, which is
almost as nice,
for that.) But LFS and BLFS seem to be limited in their ability to
work with
things like Japanese Kanji, and so I started shopping around.

I started looking around for gentoo documentation on where you go after
you've done the
handbook stuff and all I can seem to find via google makes assumptions
that you
know intermediate stuff that comes after the handbook. It's
as though the handbook were like LFS (Linux From Scratch), and now I
need to find
the BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch) equivalent instructions for
gentoo.

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Irrelevant PostScript but I can't help myself.
My first post on Usenet was in 1984. I started running into trouble
with ISP
support for usenet a few years back and dropped out. So now,
via google groups, I'm coming back to Usenet, and it feels strange
somehow. I don't
know why because I got a lot of help and sometimes gave help to others,
via usenet for
many years and it was generally a very good experience.

[Leben Ojanen]

I learned pretty quick that Gentoo is not for novice, intermediate, or
semi-advanced users :) It's hardcore or bust. I learned a ton when I
first started using Gentoo and after all this time I'm still learning.
Trust me, the day you stop trying to tinker and fix things and make
it work juuust right, is the day you die.

Your best bet with Documentation is still the www.gentoo.org website.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml to be more specific. That and
Google are your best friends for life.

If you need any specific help, drop me a line at LebenOjanen (squiggly
at mark) gmail (dot-goodness) com or LebenOjanen on AIM.