acidosmosis
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I get bored sometimes and I like to try and tackle something challenging just for the fun of it so I started working with Gentoo linux last night to see if I could get it installed. I got about half way through and ran into two or three problems. One being my partitions seem to have gotten corrupted half way through the installation and the second time I couldn't get the tar files to uncompress without getting some errors which stopped it from completing. I will eventually get it and I'm sure if you have a decent amount of knowledge anyone can eventually get it done. Anyway, I thought it would be nice to have a thread for people wanting to tackle Gentoo.
Gentoo Linux Official Site
www.gentoo.org
Download Gentoo Linux (and other distro's)
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=45
You will need at least Disk 1. I assume most of you will want the Pentium 4 GRP Install Disk(s) or the Athlon XP GRP Install Disk(s).
Installation Instructions (for x86 users -- thats for most of you)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
Comment: If you don't know whether you fall under x86 I honestly suggest you don't try to install Gentoo because you need to learn a bit more. No offence but you don't want a huge headache over this for nothing. (Although that Gentoo loading screen when you boot from the CD is pretty durn cool I have to say so it might be worth checking that out).
You can also install Gentoo on a MAC if you wish by downloading the PPC Disk's here http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=45 and consulting the PPC installation instructions
here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-install.xml
Gentoo Linux Official Site
www.gentoo.org
Download Gentoo Linux (and other distro's)
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=45
You will need at least Disk 1. I assume most of you will want the Pentium 4 GRP Install Disk(s) or the Athlon XP GRP Install Disk(s).
Installation Instructions (for x86 users -- thats for most of you)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
Comment: If you don't know whether you fall under x86 I honestly suggest you don't try to install Gentoo because you need to learn a bit more. No offence but you don't want a huge headache over this for nothing. (Although that Gentoo loading screen when you boot from the CD is pretty durn cool I have to say so it might be worth checking that out).
You can also install Gentoo on a MAC if you wish by downloading the PPC Disk's here http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=45 and consulting the PPC installation instructions
here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-install.xml