On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:01:21 +1200 (NZST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am also somewhat interested. I have been following the discussion for the
> past few days and was under the impression that it was already overbooked. It
> would depend on the date though. This weekend and next weekend are out for me.
> The next Saturday (24 April) is good, and the following Saturday (1 May) is ok
> during the day but out in the evening.
>
> My setup:
> Athlon 2600XP on Nforce 2 motherboard (Abit NF7S) with onboard LAN (I have a
> spare nic I can put in during install - I think it needs seperate drivers for
> the onboard eth.)
pretty sure those drivers are on the gentoo boot cd.
> ATI 9600pro video card
> 1GB ram
> I currently have 1 x 120GB hdd and 1 x 20GB hdd. The 120GB hdd has windows XP
> with a bunch of shared partitions for photos, music etc and the 20Gb hdd is
> running debian unstable, but hasn't been updated for some time.
> Also CDRW and DVD drive and kodak dx4900 digital camera and a card reader
>
> What I want to do:
> Get a new hdd to install Gentoo on to replace the debian hdd as it is getting
> noisy and I have had problems with it at times. I would like to transfer my
> mail etc. across from the debian installation, and have sound, DVD, CD burning,
>
> camera, card reader, etc. working.
>
> I currently have the digital camera working and DVD psuedo working (crashes and
>
> dies regularly), but the other things I haven't really bothered with.
>
> Must have Apps:
> Gnome
> Evolution
> GIMP
> GNUcash
> GQview (or equivalent)
> Gtkam/gphoto2 (digital camera)
> dvd player - currently using xine, but not very happy with it
> Browser (would prefer opera, but not too biased)
all the above is in gentoo.
> hardware 3D acceleration - need to download the latest fglrx drivers from ATI
> for the version of X Gentoo uses
>
there are a number of ATI realted packages in portage, i do not have
enough experiance of them to tell if what you want is there.
* media-tv/atitvout
Latest version available: 0.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 26 kB
Homepage: http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvou
* media-video/ati-drivers
Latest version available: 3.2.8-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 4,262 kB
Homepage: http://www.ati.com
Description: Ati precompiled drivers for r350, r300, r250 and r200 chipset
s
License: ATI
* media-video/ati-drivers-extra
Latest version available: 3.2.8-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 4,262 kB
Homepage: http://www.ati.com
Description: Ati precompiled drivers extra applications
License: ATI GPL-2 QPL-1.0
* media-video/ati-gatos [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 4.3.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 379 kB
Homepage: http://gatos.sourceforge.net/
Description: ATI Multimedia-capable drivers for XFree86
License: GPL-2
> The problem that I have is that I now only have dialup at home, so I won't
> really be able to update regularly, so I would like it to be quite stable.
>
The big downloads are few and far between. People can burn cd's for you.
You can leave it on all night while no one is using the phone. emerge
--fetchonly is your friend.
> Linux experience/skills: Reasonable, can figure out most things
>
> Cheers
>
> Luuk
>
>
>
> Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > OK make it four plus Chris S
> >
> > Have we chosen a date or as that left in my hands?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:48:04 +1200
> > "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I got the impression that after Roger read some of the installation
> > manual,
> > > he was still keen for Gentoo.
> > >
> > > Roger?
> > >
> > > Regards, Robert
> > > Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, 1 April 2004 9:45 a.m.
> > > To: CLUG
> > > Subject: Gentoo Installfest
> > >
> > > OK it looks like we really only have three takers for this, assuming
> > > Roger Searle's network card is fixed independently of a whole new
> > > install.
> > >
> > > The installees are Rik Tindall, Chris Darby and Don Gould. Plus Chris
> > > Sawtell wants to update his machine with the help of the compile
> > farm,
> > > but I'm not sure I count that as a new install, or someone requiring
> > > assistance. ;-)
> > >
> > > Surely there must be some others keen to do an assisted install of
> > > gentoo? At one stage someone proclaimed we had 6 entries. Am I
> > missing
> > > someone?
> > > --
> > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > --
> > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
--
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
