Planning on making the switch. - Page 2

All right, I got gentoo up for a bit, sort of messed it up somehow, and went back to Ubuntu. I look forward to trying to get Gentoo up and running again, but I do not have time for it.
Well the question I wanted to ask is how much space do you think I will need for my Linux partition? I have a 60 gig HD that only has XP with programs and Ubuntu. I keep all my media on an external 120 gb drive. Oo yeah, also, if I want to run Cedega/Wine, do I need to install the game through Linux or through Windows? And which drive should the game be installed on to work in Linux, the windows or linux drive? thanks.... This will help in my decision on how big to make the partition.

Hmm... so if I plan on rebooting to play on Windows, I will have to have two installs of the game on both partitions. Is this correct?

All right, I finally manged to get some time to try and re-install Gentoo. I WAS SO CLOSE. I couldn't get the stage1 tarball to work, so I started over with the stage3 tarball. I ended up finishing everything and on reboot I got the error message The root block device is unspecified... or something like that. I googled it and tried to fix the problem, but no solutions were working. I figured it had to do with my grub file so I tried editing it again, but to no avail. So, I'm giving up on trying to get Gentoo to work through the command line, and I'm giving the LiveCD a shot. I'm actually posting through the LiveCD at the moment, becuase I do not have any OS on my laptop right now.... I changed my mind with the livecd and im going to use a ReiserFS instead of ext3 on the root partition.
BTW I know the problem had to do with genkernel, I was just too lazy to start over and edit the kernel manually. I'll let you guys know how the LiveCD goes and if I have any other issues.

PS> This actually does help me understand Linux a bit better, actually a lot better.

Another question (specifically to Seablade): Considering that you seem to be fairly knowledgeable with Gentoo, would you mind telling me a good place to find a guide on how to get a stage1 tarball installed? I tried figuring it out through the handbook and through the eBuild faq, but it is quite hard to understand. I tried the gentoo wiki guides, but they are too outdated. Any ideas where I can get a good guide?

All right, I think I am going to give up on Gentoo until the LiveCD is improved for guys like me who can't seem to install the distro properly after 5 times. It is just becoming a waste of time for me. I decided to give Elive Linux a try (becuase of abf) and I must say, it is much better than Ubuntu. The e17 window manager is very nice and my system is very speedy. I would definately reccommend Elive over Ubuntu. Maybe the 2007.0 Gentoo LiveCD will work better and will be able to detect hardware and optimize it?