From: "dencar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 > So, what distro do you use at this time ? What do you mainly use it for ? Workstation ? Server ? Gateway ? Firewall ? Specialist application ? Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
