So, are there any more takers?
Yes I would like to attend also, the computer I have is a new IBM 206m 8485 P4 server with SATA drives. I have already tried booting it with the Gentoo 2006.0 live CD and it detects all of the hardware O.K. and boots to the desktop. So I tried the Gentoo Linux installer but it failed after formatting the partitions and unpacking the snapshot tarball with error could not update the config files. no such file or directory '/mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf' I have installed Gentoo once before and while it took me quite a lot of time, it has been so reliable I have never had to do another install since.
Cheers Simon Knight