On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:07:49 -0600, Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> wrote:

> OK Johnny,  I believe I'm ready for Gentoo.  I hope to improve the 
> performance of the P266 Laptop I have.
>

Use stage 1 - compile everything from scratch - and a lightweight WM like 
fluxbox...  It'll take a week to compile everything I bet....


> I have basic DSL this means a very long down load.  I'll slap yall 
> around in DoD but that's a horse of a different bandwidth.  I have a CD 
> burner now, WooHoo, but the netBSD download took about 16 hours  :-(  
> Any possibility of getting CD's with Gentoo from someone in exchange for 
> blank CD's?
>
> Sam.
>
> Johnny Fulcrum wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:31:32 -0600, Erik Anderson 
>> <erik at andersonfam.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff Nelson wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1. I am not tied to a particular distribution and am willing to try 
>>>> another. Recommendations accepted.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well OK - I'll offer a recommendation!  I just finished instaling 
>>> linux on my laptop - a Dell Inspiron 8500.  I went through Redhat, 
>>> Mandrake, and Debian with no success.  Most of my problems were caused 
>>> by the broadcom bcm4400 NIC - I'm assumming that this is the same 
>>> chipset that your HP uses.
>>>
>>> On a whim, one afternoon, I decided to try Gentoo.  Lo and behold, 
>>> *everything* worked.  Everything.  I was so impressed by their distro 
>>> that I'm starting to migrate several other boxes to gentoo.
>>
>>
>> Me too!  And I've put it on two dell laptops too.  Smokes on my old P2 
>> - 400.
>> Gentoo rocks!
>>
>>>
>>> One thing to keep in mind is that Gentoo is not an *quick* distro to 
>>> install by any stretch of the imagination.  This is mainly because it 
>>> is designed to download and compile itself from source.  Gentoo does, 
>>> however, provide excellent documentation on their website ( 
>>> www.gentoo.org ).
>>>
>>> I'd be glad to help out if you have any questions.
>>>
>>
>> I also can help - but the gentoo forums should be your first stop - 
>> some real good guys/gals there - I've always been able to find answers 
>> to my questions on the forums.
>>
>>> -Erik
>>>
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