Purty flowers
I've been busy. My laptop is now running RedHat 8, now before everyone goes off screaming "what? Redhat???".. I just didn't have the time or inclination to attempt installing gentoo on a laptop.. I needed something up and running so I wouldn't have to use win2K, so yes, RedHat. It's pretty.
Here's a picture of the laptop with RedHat, better than the previous one, no?
Speaking of newer linux, thanks to the magic of using a newer kernel I can now use my card reader (for my digital camera) under linux.. very cool.
I named it andromeda, my desktop is orion. Speaking of my desktop, it was just the power supply that blew (ref: this entry), I had a spare, replaced it and all is well *phew*.
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you could always build a gentoo system inside of a file, tbz2 it, burn it to cd, and use it to setup your laptop. I used this method for my toshiba and it worked great. I found, also, that the gentoo (once distfiles, and temp dir's, had been deleted) compressed from 1.5gb to roughly 350mb (using bz2 compression) so it's entiredly possibly to build both kde, gnome, and many apps this way before it ever hits your lappytoppy :)
just a thought
Posted by: apokalyptik | October 5, 2002 01:26 PM
Lol. Synchronicity. I was going to post a similar thing (although to sympathisze with you about Gentoo on a laptop which I did fail at).
Synchronicity since Apok is a friend of mine.
Scott
Posted by: Scott Johnson | October 8, 2002 09:48 AM