1) I think your issue's are unique.. I've never seen any issue's like that before..
2) If your short on time and patience.. then you may not want to play with Gentoo, it doesn't install like any of the other linux distro's..
That being said..
It will install MUCH cleaner, and much better optermized for your machine, because it will download what it needs and nothing more, and it will compile it to the specifications of your machine as it installs..
"Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."�� - Peter Cochrane
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The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is always there, the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the rotating wheel) keeps scrolling on each line. I can't even find any older possibly more stable releases of gentoo on the web site. I was told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't even get past unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the installation will not be such an annoyance. Hopefully someone can give me a quick fix for this otherwise frankly there are too many other distributions with easier, quicker and more reliable installations for me to tinker with this anymore than I have.
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