NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › gentoo linux on EX7?
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

gentoo linux on EX7?

post #1 of 17
4/21/06 at 10:43am
Thread Starter 
has anyone had anyluck getting gentoo to work on there EX7 or simular machine? if you have, were you able to get all the hardware to work properly, if not, what were you not able to get working?

the idea is to have getoo on one of my drives and xp on the other.
any help would be appreciated.
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 17
4/22/06 at 7:25pm
Thread Starter 
WTF?!?!?!?!.....
no love?
well that is just lovely.
thnx for the help.............
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 17
4/22/06 at 9:59pm
thought about it but didnt. also considered dual booting ubuntu and xp, but then my mobo died. my laptop is back and it really is just too much of an asspain to go through everything. i guess ill just run it on meh ghetto file servers and my ghetto laptops.
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 17
4/23/06 at 12:39pm
easysea, if it is at all possible to get Linux going on the machine, you will be fine with Gentoo. It's not a matter of whether it will work, it's a matter of how long it will take you.

Mikhail
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 17
4/23/06 at 3:03pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by easysea
has anyone had anyluck getting gentoo to work on there EX7 or simular machine? if you have, were you able to get all the hardware to work properly, if not, what were you not able to get working?

the idea is to have getoo on one of my drives and xp on the other.
any help would be appreciated.
isn't this basically the same as teh sager 9860?

If so, (only difference I see right off is the video card...) there's a wiki that might be of some help to you.

http://www.linuxworld.net.nz/sager98....php/Main_Page
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 17
4/23/06 at 8:53pm
Thread Starter 
thank you for responding to my post first off.
the link you posted has helped me to understand
what is involved with the getoo install.
thnx guys
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 17
4/23/06 at 11:12pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by easysea
thank you for responding to my post first off.
the link you posted has helped me to understand
what is involved with the getoo install.
thnx guys
no problem. I wish I had an EX7, I'd be able to respond from personal experience...
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 17
4/24/06 at 12:38pm
Thread Starter 
im really just wanting to learn linux the best i can. ive had enough of microsofts BS. there is only so much you can take before you decide to learn a new language altogether
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 17
4/24/06 at 1:05pm
Hmm random question, are you new to linux? If so Gentoo may not be the best way to start it off, though you will learn a lot, it helps for oyu to know the basics before tackling Gentoo. Ubuntu or another similar distro may be a better starting point.

Of course if you are not new to linux ignore all the above

Seablade
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 17
4/24/06 at 5:13pm
Many of us have the Sager 9750's which is the AMD equivalent of the Ex7. You should not have any issues. I've had no issues with anything in linux. If you're trying linux for the first time i'd go with ubuntu dapper first.
Reply
Reply
post #11 of 17
4/24/06 at 5:29pm
Thread Starter 
yes i am a linux noob, but i will change all that soon LOL
im teaching myself now, it is going slow, but learning new code
always takes a while.

thnx for the reply
Reply
Reply
post #12 of 17
4/24/06 at 9:46pm
yeah try dapper for starters. beta is the latest release, stable is coming on june 1.
Reply
Reply
post #13 of 17
4/24/06 at 11:31pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by easysea
yes i am a linux noob, but i will change all that soon LOL
im teaching myself now, it is going slow, but learning new code
always takes a while.

thnx for the reply
Shhhh, everyone. easysea, you're on the write track. That's exactly what I did. If you are generally technically-proficient and willing to put the time to learn, I recommend you go ahead 200%. I was a "power user" in Windows, used a shell a few times, but that was about it. Having done enough research though (to understand the handbook and generally have a good feel about things), I started off and things worked out fine. Heck, I remember getting NDISWrapper working at version 0.2 or 0.3!

Full speed ahead!

Mikhail
Reply
Reply
post #14 of 17
4/24/06 at 11:46pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by mmarkin
Shhhh, everyone. easysea, you're on the write track. That's exactly what I did. If you are generally technically-proficient and willing to put the time to learn, I recommend you go ahead 200%. I was a "power user" in Windows, used a shell a few times, but that was about it. Having done enough research though (to understand the handbook and generally have a good feel about things), I started off and things worked out fine. Heck, I remember getting NDISWrapper working at version 0.2 or 0.3!

Full speed ahead!

Mikhail
Just to play devil's advocate...

Heh cause Im good at it.

Started off in DOS writing batch scripts. Command line friendly style person, I still reccomend learning the basics with something like Ubuntu first before tackling Gentoo. It is mroe so you learn the basic terminology and commands so you can udnerstand what you are doing better

But obviously there are varying opinions on this.

Seablade
Reply
Reply
post #15 of 17
4/25/06 at 9:38am
If you're set on REALLY learning GNU/Linux you can't beat the Gentoo experience IMHO. I've used just about every distro under the sun (including LFS) but always come back to Gentoo. It's so easy to tweak things to your liking, add extra bits in, writing your own ebuilds is a breeze once you've learnt how, though portage is so full of ebuilds that I rarely have to do that anymore. Gentoo's especially good for laptops IMHO 'cause you can tweak things to fit the lappy in ways that in other distros can't. It's not for the faint hearted though .
Reply
Reply
post #16 of 17
4/25/06 at 10:03pm
Thread Starter 
thnx for all the replys guys.
you all have been lots of help.
joining these forums has been
a great experiance. im thinking of
creating a few different partions
and installing a few distros and
see how that works out for me.
as of yet, i still havent recieved
my new latop so im playing the
waiting game, just studying
every night after work. seems
ive gotten myself in to exactly
what i was looking for. A CHALANGE
my main goal is to increase my knowlegde
of computers and the inner workings
of the code. i think this is a good path
for me.
thnx again to everyone who posted their
thoughts.
Reply
Reply
post #17 of 17
4/25/06 at 11:07pm
Linux will definitly do the above if you want it to. Whatever path you take to it Gentoo is a good way to learn the above.

Seablade
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Linux & Other OS's
NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › gentoo linux on EX7?