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On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote:
> > I've prepared a presentation called "About Gentoo for people who think
> > its a crazy idea". It's on offer as a SLUG talk if anyone is interested.
>
> So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has to offer.
>
On my K6-3 450, 350mb ram, system a stage1 install took 72 hours, including
download of KDE (48 hours) using the default 'use' flags. Kde still won't
start automatically from runlevel 5, the kernel (installed using genkernel is
corrupt and contains messages: wrong loader,giving up, linux fatal error, A20
gate not responding, refuses to access high mem, no setup signature found,
incomplete literal tree, incomplete distance tree, out of memory, memory
error, malloc error, ran out of input data, system halted, OK booting the
kernel, invalid compressed format, to quote a few.) Remarkably the system
boots from the HD but not from a boot disk - it quits when it runs out of
input data. Also, none of my awe sound is installed nor is the nominated
ext3 file support compiled and, when I tried to recompile, lo and behold the
sis kernel driver is broken. Gentoo takes me back to RH 5.1 days, with less
satisfaction so far, but I'll persevere. I wish you luck.
dencar
>
> Oscar Plameras
> http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
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