[gentoo-user] core packages for a dual-boot system

I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching 
over from fedora.

as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, "/mnt/windows".

[thufir@localhost ~]$
[thufir@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       17394484  14690156   1806488  90% /
/dev/hda2               101105     18104     77780  19% /boot
/dev/shm                111860         0    111860   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1             11451144   9922200   1528944  87% /mnt/windows
[thufir@localhost ~]$ date
Sun Mar 19 12:28:40 EST 2006
[thufir@localhost ~]$


Occasionally I boot into windows and would, for the time being, like to 
keep that capability.  However, I might entirely drop windows down the 
road.

I want to be able to return to:

' After step 5, core packages, which are the same on all Gentoo 
installations, are installed'
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=1>

as a baseline.  Would there be a command to do so?


To install:

acroread
Description: Adobe's PDF reader

For an x86 system, would I download the file from adobe, then something 
like "emerge acroread", and would that also give me the plugin for 
firefox?  Or, is the firefox plugin for that through 
<http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/> which connects to acroread?  I know 
there are other GPL readers, of course.

For perhaps a different thread, I'm feeling my way with with xmms, 
realplayer, windows media player, mplayer, shoutcast, streamripper and 
streamtuner, etc.  Right now I have firefox configured such that an MP3 
shoutcast playlist opens with Audio Player (xmms), which is ok, but I 
notice that streamtuner uses bmp.  One of the reasons I'm looking at 
gentoo is in the hope that gentoo handles mplayer and the multitudes of 
codecs well.

I have a gnoppix CD kicking around, so I'll probably use that, if I can 
find it.


thanks,

Thufir
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