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I Got Them Old  "I Just Can't Compile My Kernel Right Blues Again, Mama."


When your down and out, its nice to have good company.

I spent a few more hours on Gentoo tonight. I started from scratch and rebuilt the system. Although the install process is getting easy enough, but I still can't get my ethernet card running. No ethernet = no internet = no fun.

So I finally had to give it in for tonight. I should be doing a million other things, but when I rebooted into XP I looked around for some more information on networking with Gentoo. Funny enough, I ran into a weblog that is not unlike this one entitled dive into mark. I've stumbled onto this site before through web searches; it seems to be quite popular and covers a wide range of computer-related subject matter.

It seems that Mark tried his hand at installing Gentoo around this time last year. He also experienced difficulties with networking. Here is part of what he had to say about Gentoo:

"I have utterly failed to install Gentoo Linux. For those who don’t know, Gentoo is the newest and geekiest Linux distribution around. Hardly a distribution, really; more of a philosophy (“Linux should be as intimidating as possible”). You download just enough to get you started, burn it onto a CD, then manually partition and format your drive, manually configure your networking, manually mount the CD, unpack the few precompiled utilities, then use what appears to be a fairly advanced system of build scripts that download source code and compile it from scratch. The first thing you download and compile is the kernel. (And that’s for the easy install. For the custom install, the first thing you download and compile is a compiler.) It’s like 1995 all over again."  more...


Why should reading that make me feel better? What a strange phenomena!

Another odd thing I've noticed about myself: now that I've written about my plight with this darn o/s on this web log, I am absolutley deternined to see it through. Why won't I just give in and try RedHat or Mandrake or some Linux flavor like that? I mean, this all started around the time I wrote the post Linux the Easy Way!

27 May 2003  |   permalink