On Tuesday 30 November 2004 19:19, Chris Wallace wrote: > Well, I'm about to dive into a stage 1 gentoo install and wanted some last > minute tips/tricks from the experienced gentooites.
The most common problem I've seen is forgetting to enable the swap. It's one of the more frustrating too, since it's hard to troubleshoot, because everything will look correct. > Any snares to try to avoid? The specs on this box are not exactly > blisteringly fast (P3 1GHz w/ 512MB RAM) but I figured I'd play with it a > bit on this spare box before moving to a more worthy one. That's more than enough. > On a side note, any issues with trying to install gentoo in a vm? If you mean VMware, then you need to remember the NIC and HDDs are not what you expect that they are. I don't remember the right ones, but come back to the list if you need them, I have it written down somewhere. Separate from your questions, I'd suggest trying a stage 3 first. It'll be MUCH faster, it's all of 2 commands less in terms of learning, and the end result is close enough. Also, if your kernel is screwed up, you can simply reboot from the install CD, mount /boot, / , /proc, and swap, chroot, and recompile your kernel again with any changes. I've always preferred ext2 for /boot, and reiser for /. Once you have it working, if you run KDE, read the Gentoo Prelinking howto. It's pretty easy, and you'll see MUCH better performance. Enjoy. Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
