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5/23/05 at 2:02am
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Hey guys, I had a Compaq 2700T for a while and installed Linux Slack ware on it, didn't have too much time to explore it, but installed and ran great with KDE. Now I've got a new laptop Inspiron 9300 yes I love my screen ;p but now I'm stuck between Slack ware and Gentoo. I plan on doing alot of Wifi security testing with this setup, at the moment I've got windows xp installed with my Linux partison with swap partison ready to be activated in Partison Magic . Just about go time. I know Slackware is said to be hard but I installed that and got it running with little difficulty but Gentoo seems like a whole other story I still consider myself a n00b don't know what compiling a kernel means but I'm sure if I follow the handbook I should be ok. I'm not sure what emerge is all about either. basically I'll be blindly typing in what's in the hand book. If you have any tips for this dual boot install let me know. I think Gentoo will have more benefits than slack ware due to that updating system I'm reading about but not sure what it does also lol. Sometimes you got to take the flame right on and singe only a few hairs.
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post #2 of 6
5/23/05 at 6:55am
You tried any form of a debian setup? Gentoo isnt what I reccomend for people just starting in Linux usually, but I find Ubuntu to be rather good and you can still update your system or software through apt in Ubuntu(Or any debian install), but you dont have to compile anything to do it.

Just a thought for you.

Seablade
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post #3 of 6
5/23/05 at 6:58am
PS Make sure your wireless card is supported under linux if you want to tuse it to test wireless security

Seablade
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post #4 of 6
5/23/05 at 9:52am
Both Slack and Gentoo are good distros. If a Stage 1 gentoo install scares you, start with a Stage 2 or Stage 3. There really isnt much difficulty to installing Gentoo if you follow the handbook, and you will learn a great deal about linux. If you are doing wireless pen testing (kismet, void11, airodump, aireplay) you might want to check out a bootable live cd called Auditor that comes with these programs pre-installed. Pop in the cd, and the modified kanotix linux boots. The distro is based around wireless security testing, so there is tremendeous support for wireless cards. With any luck, everything will be auto detected and kismet, void11, ariodump/aireplay will already be installed and ready to go.
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post #5 of 6
5/23/05 at 10:21am
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So There are Stage Difficulty's with Gentoo installs? I've had experience with LILO in the past on my old laptop Gentoo seems to have something diffrent for dual boot. After I install a linux destro is it very hard to take like Knoppix STD and PHLAK Live CD's and install those programs into Gentoo? One thing that sucks is I had a book "Running Linux" but seems someone took it at work, I was learning a good bit from that thing, but maybe there would be a better book I can look into? I think Running Linux was based for Red Hat.
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5/23/05 at 10:40am
OK, let's see if I can explain a little better here. Gentoo has 3 stages of an install. Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3. Stage 1 -> Stage 2 -> Stage 3 -> finished. You can start at any one of the stages and get gentoo installed. Starting at Stage 1 yields a much more customized linux install based upon your specific hardware, however it also takes a lot longer. Stage 2 gives you less customization than Stage 1, but also doesn't take as long. Stage 3 doesn't give you much customization at all, but also doesn't take very long. See where this is going?? Installing gentoo from Stage 1 takes longer and is more complex, but also yields a more customized/performance tuned system. You can start an install from any stage. If you install a linx distro, you can easily install programs found on phlax/knopptix/auditor live CDs. Just dl and install the app. Nothing special here. People like liveCDs because of their portability and ease of use. But if you have a distro installed on your hard disk, installing apps is real easy. Gentoo uses GRUB, as oppose to LILO. GRUB is easy and the gentoo handbook shows how to setup GRUB for dual booting windows.
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