Posts by mmarkin

Hey Seablade, don't format just yet. Grab your LiveCD and bootstrap the system again. That will give you gcc back. Then you should be able to chroot into the system and bring all the packages up to speed with 'emerge -avuDN...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 - Conky monitor BUWAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Any "Trailer Park Boys" fans around here? EDIT: LOL, looks like it was actually the reason for their name!...

Good to know you're making progress, BT. Oh and its the journey that counts, not the end result.

Quote: Originally Posted by abf dare i ask then....do you know any other speed-optimized XFCE-based distro that hopefully has better overall hardware support? or fixes would be good too Gentoo + time ......

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtrouble77 First is that my boot partition isn't automounting to /boot. I quite perplexed by that. I have to mount it to /mnt/boot manually if I want to edit my grub.conf. It's...

Makes sense.

Seablade, what advantages does the initrd ramdisk bring to the table? I've never bothered with it myself as it seemed like an unnecessary extra. Mikhail

That just looks like you forgot to include kernel support for whatever file system is on your root partition. Have you double-checked this?

LOL didn't notice the "its fixed" line. Well, the above GRUB trick still holds

BT, since you'll eventually get to the business of choosing your CFLAGS, I recommend this resource: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags. Take that as a reference and start tweaking them if you know what you're doing. There is nothing...