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September 15, 2004
Gentoo
"And now for something completely different..."
My brother Matt suggested I try Gentoo Linux. Why not?
Gentoo is not for marketing dudes, but it comes with nice documentation for newbies. Don't try it unless you've grokked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, however.
Good thing Google is there when you need to learn something. The first bit I had to learn was passing ide2=0x180,0x386 to the kernel on the install CD so my Vaio could read the CD-ROM after the system settings replaced the BIOS. Then at the end, I'd forgotton to set a root password. This was the first time I've edited files with echo and sed because no interactive text editor was available.
Posted by Mark at September 15, 2004 05:06 PM