Sadness

Well My main drive went caput a couple of weeks ago. I was dual booting XP and Gentoo. I had made a ghost image using ver 2003 of the drive, so I wasn't too concerned. I ordered a second drive with a bracket and got my Win XP going for work in a couple of days on it. Well I get my new drive today and go to restore. Turns out there is a problem with Ghost and Ext3 so I have to reload from scratch. this sucks bad. If you guys are using ghost to back up/image Ext3 FS check your image and make sure it's good. Here's the link to symantec's entry in the KB http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...e=&svy=&csm=no the official answer.... We're working on it. Beware guys.

yeah I know but I have NFR copies of almost everything from my job. So hey it was free and fast. So since I'm going to reinstall any way you guys think I should wait for 2004.0 Live cd or just go for it with my 1.4rc1 cd and the latest experimental stage1.

Here's a link to a fairly fast mirror for the released livecd version. http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distr...ecd/universal/
I'll be installing in a matter of about an hour.

It looks like it did from reading this http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/ that's what I'm getting. this is a short quote

The latest releases of Gentoo Linux are:

Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for x86, hardened-x86, AMD64, PowerPC, SPARC, and MIPS.

Bill
PS t- 27 MS minutes to burn.

Update livecd 2004.0 boots to a 2.6 kernel. I have it boot strapped and emerge system now on to the kernel tonight. The 2.6 kernel is still in dev-sources everythingelse is still 2.4 I emerge synced a fresh portage tree as of last night and no love of 2.6 being default. I'll keep updating as I go.

UPDATE
I have a mostly fully functional sytem now. Some notes on what I had to do and drivers I am using.
Kernel: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 dev-sources.
Everything is working for now. Had to passa an acpi=force in grub.conf to get acpi working. A look in messages shows that I have a bios that is from 92. With the force of acpi smp works fine. Kudos the the kernel guys big improvement over 2.4 in both speed and drivers
Video: ATI 3.2.8 & XFree 4.3.0-r5
Nothing out of the ordinary there.
Sound: Kernel alsa still gotta set default startup volume.
Touch pad.: combo kernel and synaptics-0.12.4 nothing out of the ordinary there either.
Wireless: Netgear MA401ra.
Using the kernel driver and wrote a little script to set needed parameters with iwconfig. wep key etc. Two of them actualy one for home and one for work. Still gotta tweak it. But it does work without linux-wlan-ng or anything else.
Misc:
Grub seems to have a bug in that the splash image doesn't work grub-0.93.20030118 it's related to thisbug. Between forgetting the menu.lst and booting linux from hdd using XPs bootloader that was a pain. Still have a few apps to emerge. My slmodem drivers and openoffice and a few other things that escape me right now.
That's it for now.
Bill