Gentoo Linux is Incredible!

[ttye0]

In order to get my Gentoo Install CD to boot correctly without freezing I had to use one of any of the CD's that gives you the boot prompt (ie: where you set boot options during boot is the best way for me to word it).

When it brings you to the spot that says, "Type gentoo to boot or hit enter" ~or f2 for more options~ then hit f2.
See all those options? I had to disable all of them.
My acpi, scsi, and net all froze my boot...I ended up getting the installer to work on my notebook with: gentoo noacpi nonet noscsi (and also the other option but I forget it off the top of my head)

See if that helps :-D

[Soybomb]

I played with gentoo for a while and despiting the agonizing compile times on a p2-300 laptop I didn't have too many complaints. I think my main issue is (and perhaps I was doing something wrong) was that it was one giant bleeding edge distro always changing. I like to track the stable release and only update something if necessary for security. Freebsd lets me to this easily so I returned home ;)

[simple3]

i think you can get precompiled packages for most everything with gentoo now, although that kinda defeats the purpose.

--simple3

[bruceleeroy]

Gentoo

i think you can get precompiled packages for most everything with gentoo now, although that kinda defeats the purpose.

--simple3

You can buy the Gentoo cds from www.gentoo.org with pre-compiled packages that are optimized for your architecture.

http://store.gentoo.org/index.php?it...ction=viewitem


Bruce Leeroy Green

[Kry0NiK]

I played with gentoo for a while and despiting the agonizing compile times on a p2-300 laptop I didn't have too many complaints. I think my main issue is (and perhaps I was doing something wrong) was that it was one giant bleeding edge distro always changing. I like to track the stable release and only update something if necessary for security. Freebsd lets me to this easily so I returned home ;)

When you emerge world, you are updating every package regardless. If you dont want to update everything, you have the option of emerging one package at a time, thus only upgrading the ones you want. If you are that concerned about not updating packages, the same amount of homework would be involved either way.

[ck3k]

I just got my gentoo box up and running, so far I love the os and the way it works....emerge makes my life easier and the absence of RPMs is nice.

I am running 1.4....i admit i did it from a stage 3 tarball :D