Gentoo

[kid robusto]

letting the P1 box sit there for a week or two isnt a problem, becasue this box has been sitting uner my stairs for a few weeks,and has no other use.

i D/led the Univerisal live CD for x86, and now im going to get the stage 1 file, should i burn it as a .tar.bz2 or do i need to do somethign special to it first?

[MikeDubreuil]

Originally Posted by kid robusto

letting the P1 box sit there for a week or two isnt a problem, becasue this box has been sitting uner my stairs for a few weeks,and has no other use.

i D/led the Univerisal live CD for x86, and now im going to get the stage 1 file, should i burn it as a .tar.bz2 or do i need to do somethign special to it first?

Burn it to a data CD, as a .tar.bz2

[Joe Ross]

I tried gentoo a few times, and I have to say that it has the dishonor of being the only linux distribution that I tried where something "broke" without me doing anything.

I set up gentoo from stage 2 on my laptop, and got everything working as I wanted. I used it a few times with no problems (it was installed along side my normal distribution, debian). Then, I didn't touch it for a few months. Then, when I booted into gentoo again, my wireless didn't work. The module no longer wanted to load into the kernel and I had to recompile it.

I'm sure Gentoo is good for a lot of people, just not for me.

[Ian W.]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I tried gentoo a few times, and I have to say that it has the dishonor of being the only linux distribution that I tried where something "broke" without me doing anything.

I set up gentoo from stage 2 on my laptop, and got everything working as I wanted. I used it a few times with no problems (it was installed along side my normal distribution, debian). Then, I didn't touch it for a few months. Then, when I booted into gentoo again, my wireless didn't work. The module no longer wanted to load into the kernel and I had to recompile it.

I'm sure Gentoo is good for a lot of people, just not for me.

Well, the problem was letting it sit for a few months ;-). Gentoo is one of those bleeding edge distros, everything changes so often, recompiling a new kernel isn't a huge deal. Or at least for me.