On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:07:49 -0600, Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote: > OK Johnny, I believe I'm ready for Gentoo. I hope to improve the > performance of the P266 Laptop I have. > Use stage 1 - compile everything from scratch - and a lightweight WM like fluxbox... It'll take a week to compile everything I bet.... > I have basic DSL this means a very long down load. I'll slap yall > around in DoD but that's a horse of a different bandwidth. I have a CD > burner now, WooHoo, but the netBSD download took about 16 hours :-( > Any possibility of getting CD's with Gentoo from someone in exchange for > blank CD's? > > Sam. > > Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:31:32 -0600, Erik Anderson >> <erik at andersonfam.org> wrote: >> >>> Jeff Nelson wrote: >>> >>>> 1. I am not tied to a particular distribution and am willing to try >>>> another. Recommendations accepted. >>> >>> >>> Well OK - I'll offer a recommendation! I just finished instaling >>> linux on my laptop - a Dell Inspiron 8500. I went through Redhat, >>> Mandrake, and Debian with no success. Most of my problems were caused >>> by the broadcom bcm4400 NIC - I'm assumming that this is the same >>> chipset that your HP uses. >>> >>> On a whim, one afternoon, I decided to try Gentoo. Lo and behold, >>> *everything* worked. Everything. I was so impressed by their distro >>> that I'm starting to migrate several other boxes to gentoo. >> >> >> Me too! And I've put it on two dell laptops too. Smokes on my old P2 >> - 400. >> Gentoo rocks! >> >>> >>> One thing to keep in mind is that Gentoo is not an *quick* distro to >>> install by any stretch of the imagination. This is mainly because it >>> is designed to download and compile itself from source. Gentoo does, >>> however, provide excellent documentation on their website ( >>> www.gentoo.org ). >>> >>> I'd be glad to help out if you have any questions. >>> >> >> I also can help - but the gentoo forums should be your first stop - >> some real good guys/gals there - I've always been able to find answers >> to my questions on the forums. >> >>> -Erik >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list