[gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

[Matt Harrison]

I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and 
failed to find a succinct source of information.

I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very 
basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the 
current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the 
wired or wireless network devices so I'm unable to grab the stage3 and 
portage tarballs.

I was going to put them on a CD then work on the network stuff later 
with a more recent kernel, then I realised that the SSDs in use won't 
really like compilations being done (apart from it being achingly slow 
on this processor).

So what are my options? Ideally I want to have the network going so I 
can compile the packages on my desktop, then have them installed over 
the network.

I've read several wiki articles etc which talk about patching older 
kernels, or that the 2.6.28-* series having support for the network, but 
both of those methods would involve me making my own bootable media, 
something I've done before and remember it took me a fair amount of work.

Any advice from you guys would be great, as I'm about to just stick XP 
on it ;)

~Matt