Gentoo is good...

After bertungkus-lumus the whole weekend, I managed to get Gentoo installed on the old Compaq Presario 1500. Yes, it does take me two days to install, almost, but don't get the impression that Gentoo is hard to install. The problem is with my notebook. It's slow, and it always, always die during compilation. I suspect a hardware fault somewhere, because the fan never stopped and it is very loud, and it gets hot easily. So, in the middle, of say, compiling qt or mozilla, the notebook would automatically shut itself down, and I have to restart.



And I can't use any binaries either - the package cd is old, useless even, since the first thing that I do is updating the portage.



Yes, I did disable acpi after getting a compiled kernel, but that did not help either. So what I did was fan the notebook - using a table fan during the whole day. Not once it shut itself down! Looks like even my notebook can't stand the hot Malaysian weather.



Next up for me is to pasang Gentoo on Alphademon's notebook. But first, I need to get a Knoppix CD since Gentoo's live CD could not detect his samseng, er, Samsung wireless network card.



And talking about wireless, heh, Kit and I got ourselves a Netgear Wireless Router M814. I had a problem getting it to work with the Aztech DSL modem, but of course it was due to human error. Much thanks to Alphaque who came all the way this afternoon to help me sort out the, err, human error.



Anyway, Gnome is damn fast on the notebook! The performance is significantly better than Gnome on Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (which was running on the notebook before). Anyway, a lot of work needs to be done - acpi configs, fluxbox (as I will not be using Gnome, Kit will), wireless configs, iptables and other stuff. But first thing first - sleep.



Listening to: Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go