for the GENTOO crowd

[bkelsay at comcast.net]

Gentoo related question.  Will I be able to install from just a stage one
disk on a P-120 laptop w/ 32MB of RAM?  I finally found a laptop I could
afford and it's slower than my desktop P-233.  I'm currently looking for a
RAM upgrade for this old laptop and it will max out at 48MB.  Luckily it has
a built in 6x CD and floppy and a NIC I bought on ebay is on its way.

Somebody gave me a 10/100 NIC, but it was cardbus (32-bit) and couldn't be
detected in either Linux or Windows.   I already had Windows 98 on the drive
from my internet appliance and so I stuck it in and the laptop booted fine
and detected all hardware, except the NIC.  I loaded Mandrake 8.2 on it but
could only get disk one and a MINIMAL  Icewm.  It looks crappy.   I want
XFCE or something else.  Hoping that KDE when compiled on the machine will
be sweet.
Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: for the GENTOO crowd

> BTW,
>  Gentoo is now in the top 10 distros.
>
> Brian