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On Tuesday 28 September 2004 14:56, Jon Lawrence wrote:
Gentoo's great :) OK, installing from stage1 can take one heck of a long time - not really the distro to use if you need to use the box within the next couple of days :).
I feel a "Gentoo-Installation-Fest" coming on. Food provided,bring yer own beer and sleeping bags. Watch the sunset from the balcony while stoking a vegetarian barbeque. View the spectacular vista of the rubble of ancient ST.Austell,etched by moonlight... Enjoy a spot of militant activity when we march en-masse into the local council offices and commence a system upgrade.
Debian - well, this is what's on all my servers. nuff said really - it works. OK, the various applications may be slightly old but you can gaurentee that they'll work. Once you've built a couple of Kernels, you'll wonder what the fuss is. Always keep a liveCD (or rescueCD) handy though, everyone can mess up a Kernel build every now and again - and overwrite the working kernel :) . At least with a CD you can get back into your system and sort things out.
Can't wait,mate.The way I see it,yes,I have an awful lot to learn,but there will come a point where it'll all start making sense.I'll fire up Nano and know exactly what needs to be entered.What would be the point of me,for example,buying a computer with Gentoo pre-installed? If I haven't built it from the ground up,I'll have no chance of understanding how it works.
There is a funny side,however-XP can't "see" the drive either.This means,anyone purchasing such a computer has two options:either go beserk and demand a refund..or move on up to Linux.This sounds more like some kind of odd firmware on the drive rather than a cylinder issue - though I could be wrong.
Well,all I know is,when I booted from the Universal LIVE Gentoo installation CD,I ran fdisk and Gentoo "offered" to reset the cylinders to a default setting.Miraculously,XP could detect the drive immediately following that. Seems like it was a temporary fix,though.I have tried dozens of GNU/Linux distros on said drive and they all report that it doesn't exist/cannot be accessed/or cfdisk cannot access the drive etc So,I booted from the Gentoo disc again,and found the cylinders were once more numbered 20023. I have a lot to learn about the complexities of hardware,too. Sadie
Jon
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