Hey, Great community. I've been lurking for a while before finally deciding to install Gentoo, which I attempted to do yesterday!
I've attempted to install on my three year-old Dell Dimension 8100 1.5Gz P4 + 512MB RAM + 200GB disk & 80GB disk, twice now, and the installation has hung on a black screen both times - both last night. Before the install, this box had been running Red Hat 9 for a few months, with absolutely no problems, so I'm confident that the hardware is good. First time, I tried stage 1, by the book. I modified /etc/make.conf to specify an i686 (it was i386), but that's it. It hung during the bootstrapping process somewhere. Second time, I tried stage 2, by the book, no modififcations to any config files. A couple times during the various compiling process I heard a series of five beeps. By the time I ran into the office to check the machine and hit a key to bring it out of screensaver mode, whatever it was that had caused that had scrolled off the screen. Anyway, hours later, it was still going, so I went to bed. Woke up this morning, and poof - black screen, frozen. I simply turned the box off. Is there anything I can do at this point to diagnose the problem? Would throwing my hands in the air and going with stage3 be admitting defeat? Are there Dell-specific things that I somehow missed in the FAQs? Should I have done something to my config files at stage1 and stage2 - perhaps some kernel option or whatever? Jason Newquist San Francisco Bay Area -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
