Nicholas Pappas wrote: > But this has given me a chance to pause and see if anyone has > installed Gentoo on a Sony Z505RX laptop before.
Hmmmm, historical hardware! :) The forums have plenty of these and other Z models on record, the first one dates from May *last* year... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2069 In general, if you get that PCMCIA-CD-drive of yours to spin at all you're ready to go. People have used the time-honoured "ide2=0x180,0x386" boot prompt command to make this work. If that doesn't help, you'll find the alternative installation guide or the floppy boot routine of much value. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690 Don't try the 2.6 kernel (or a pre-emptible 2.4.x) if you want your Rockwell modem to work with the Conexant drivers. Everything else will just fall into place as soon as you get your kernel configuration right. I suggest the e100 module for the built-in NIC (don't know if it's on the LiveCD, you can temporarily use the eepro driver instead). When in doubt, *always* ask at the linux-sony mailing list: http://returntonature.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-sony Linux-on-laptops is a good source for links to additional information, but there are so many broken ones on the Sony page that I've more or less given up on it. http://tuxmobil.org/sony.html looks significantly more up to date to me. Have fun Ulrich Plate
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