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I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and |
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failed to find a succinct source of information. |
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I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very |
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basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the |
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current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the |
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wired or wireless network devices so I'm unable to grab the stage3 and |
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portage tarballs. |
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I was going to put them on a CD then work on the network stuff later |
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with a more recent kernel, then I realised that the SSDs in use won't |
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really like compilations being done (apart from it being achingly slow |
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on this processor). |
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So what are my options? Ideally I want to have the network going so I |
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can compile the packages on my desktop, then have them installed over |
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the network. |
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I've read several wiki articles etc which talk about patching older |
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kernels, or that the 2.6.28-* series having support for the network, but |
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both of those methods would involve me making my own bootable media, |
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something I've done before and remember it took me a fair amount of work. |
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Any advice from you guys would be great, as I'm about to just stick XP |
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on it ;) |
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~Matt |
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