Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes <at> mcaschool.net> writes: > I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux > laptop.
Here's a random list of ideas that may ease the pain of conversion. 1. backup the existing system 2. Run lspci -vv, lshw, and discover to document the hardware under ubuntu before beginnning the conversion. USBview can be valuable is you have usb devices. 3. Save the.config file for building a kernel or the existing kernel under ubuntu 4. Save the hdparm settings on the existing drive, as well as the /etc/fstab and xorg or xfree configuration files. In fact a second backup of /etc/ and any other valuable config files is a good idea. 5. Boot the laptop with the most recent liveCD (gentoo) and see what works and what does not work. 6. Research all hardware device driver issues before making the commitment. 7. Save a 'dmesg' log file. hth, James -- [email protected] mailing list
