Hi, In the last day I've managed to do a very nice conversion to Gentoo of an existing home machine that was running FC2. The conversion was almost totally painless and most important worked very well. This conversion was done using the 2005.0 Universal CD and the instruction book on it. I did not use the web at all during the first part of the build. It was really great to sit on a machine with no network connection and have everything I needed to do a really efficient install.
So, a BIG THANKS to all the developers and those who participate on this list and in the forums. The info you provide is really great! This conversion built 360 packages. There was only one package that didn't build (apmd) and there was already a bug reported on that. The only thing that could have gone a bit smoother was better support for a ndiswrapper wireless install. (In my case a /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 file would have pretty much done the trick.) Also the flexibility of the Gentoo install allowed me to use the existing grub setup making the machine dual boot from the get go. After Gentoo has been stable for a few days we'll get rid of the FC2 partitions but for now it's great to have them. Having done Gentoo installations a few time (10-15 maybe) I must say I really like the process. The only thing that struck me this time was the need to build a kernel before having installed grub and rebooted. I think I would have preferred to just boot the binary kernel that the CD was using and then only build my real kernel once but I wasn't sure what to grab to make that work. This way I build -r3 and then pretty much immediately threw it away and built -r6. A small complaint indeed. So, again, a big thanks to you guy who make this possible. Really cool work. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
