Re: [SLUG] Gentoo

[Ben de Luca]

Hi Dencar why don't you post to the list some one might help you?

a few things-

gentoo doesnt use runlevels like you think or maybee u have been used 
to on redhat?

try using the default kernel sources? Some times the gentoo kernels can 
be a bit weird, you might want to log a bug report on bugs.gentoo.org.






From: "dencar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:40, Oscar Plameras wrote:
I've prepared a presentation called "About Gentoo for people who 
think
its a crazy idea". It's on offer as a SLUG talk if anyone is
interested.
So, I'd be keenly interested to know what Gentoo has to offer.

On my K6-3 450, 350mb ram, system a stage1 install took 72 hours,
including
download of KDE (48 hours) using the default 'use' flags. Kde still 
won't
start automatically from runlevel 5, the kernel (installed using 
genkernel
is
corrupt and contains messages: wrong loader,giving up, linux fatal 
error,
A20
gate not responding, refuses to access high mem, no setup signature 
found,
incomplete literal tree, incomplete distance tree, out of memory, 
memory
error, malloc error, ran out of input data, system halted, OK booting 
the
kernel, invalid compressed format, to quote a few.) Remarkably the 
system
boots from the HD but not from a boot disk - it quits when it runs 
out of
input data. Also, none of my awe sound is installed  nor is the 
nominated
ext3 file support compiled and, when I tried to recompile, lo and 
behold
the
sis kernel driver is broken. Gentoo takes me back to RH 5.1 days, with
less
satisfaction so far, but I'll persevere. I wish you luck.
dencar
So, what distro do you use at this time ? What do you mainly use it 
for ?
Workstation ? Server ? Gateway ? Firewall ? Specialist application ?

Oscar Plameras
http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html
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