> -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 1:50 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: New Gentoo Laptop > > 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 > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list [Timothy A. Holmes]
James -- thanks so much for your help and ideas -- they all sound like excellent suggestions -- I will comment on each one below 1. Thankfully -- I am actually going to be installing on a totally new hdd, so the backup issue is not really there, the drives will become interchangeable, and once the linux one is fully working, the original one will be reformatted as a windows drive for the rare case that the box would need it 2. Those sound good -- ive never messed with them, I'm assuming that all of them have appropriate man pages? 3. On this one - the kernel is the default one packaged with Ubuntu, I have done updates out of synaptic, but have not configured it at all. I don't know how to get a config file for it -- can you point me to a reference, or give me some instructions 4. sounds good -- again thankfully -- it's a drive swap rather than an overwrite 5. Definatly will do 6. Also sounds good 7. How do I do this??? Thanks again to you and all who have commented, Please keep those comments coming -- im loving this TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
