Well I finally got my desktop to boot from the Gentoo link boot cd. I had to use the nofb (no frambuffer option). So far it is very involved. I had to set some flags in my make.conf file so that all files built on the system are optimized for my hardware. Right now I’m bootstrapping my system, and that means that it is building the GNU C library, compiler suite and other key system programs (binutils, gcc, gettext,glibc). The install guide that this process takes about 2 hours on and AMD 1200MHZ machine and I’m doing this on a Celeron 500. So this may take awhile. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So after this gets done building I have about another 10 hours of build time to look forward to. It still has to build the kernel, X, Gnome, KDE and all the other goodies.<\/p>\n
Ooops I’m seeing a gcc error for an option that I put in my make.conf, I wonder if that is going to screw me up?<\/p>\n
OK this is my uber-geek post for the day. Gotta get to bed soon so we can get up early and head to the gym, it is always way to busy in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Update<\/b>It looks like I’m gonna have to nuke my partitions and start over again, I totally neglected to include the USE= flags<\/a> which is the whole reason I’m trying Gentoo. I’m not going to interupt the bootstrap build right now, I will just mess with it in the morning. It looks like this would be a good distro to load onto my laptop since you can build support for ACPI and APM into all applications. So maybe I could get Linux hibernation to work properly. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well I finally got my desktop to boot from the Gentoo link boot cd. I had to use the nofb (no frambuffer option). So far it is very involved. I had to set some flags in my make.conf file so … Continue reading