Posts by tlo

thank you all for helping out, i know have a running gentoo environment emerging kde as we speak (no gnome for me). with any luck, soon my windows partition will be relegated to running games off my external drive.

linux is not ready for one very big reason: command prompt. there is still so much that has to be done through the command prompt, such as updates, apt-gets and emerge's, or what have you's, think about how often you use it? until...

yeah, i think thats what happened (the proc). i saw that line later and it didnt look too familiar. im gonna try that next. if that doesnt work, how do i manually mount that boot partition to be read-write? just mount /dev/hda2...

yes, i would love to take advantage of that. pm me your sn please Clarification: the errors i got before were not in the liveCD environment, they happened after i tried to boot up without the CD. i came back into the liveCD environment,...

yeah if you dont mind using a mac, they make that mac mini thing, which is about a third the size of a shoe box. of courst then you need to carry around the monitor and keyboard though. you can also find (or make) a Small Form Factor...

the problems i have arent during the install at all, they happen when i reboot into my gentoo environment. i listed xp as ext2 because thats what the handbook said to do. im in xp now and it runs fine, so i guess its ok (although you're...

yeah, there is a way, it should be somewhere in your owners manual

15.4 inches sometimes seems a little big for people who like working in coffee shops, or anywhere else away from home. personally, i think its the perfect size/portability ratio, but a lot of my friends think mine is huge (sager 3880).

this is the uncommented portion of my fstab: Code: /dev/hda1 /WinXP ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 /Gentoo/boot ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2 /dev/hda3 /none swap sw ...

but before, when i did it all the first time, it worked. could i just mount xp to /mnt/WinXp, so as to not have windows messin with my gentoo? EDIT: new problem, I emerged gentoo, but now when i boot linux, i get a bunch of cannot write...