While I haven't tried this I would be very interested to hear how it goes, what hardware you can get working etc. Do keep us updated.
Alex On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 20:59 Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/30/2017 12:24 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > Subject says it all... > > > > I acquired (on the cheap) a used Surface Pro 3 with the keyboard cover > > off of a relative who wasn't using it (they said the screen was too > small.) > > > > I am considering putting Gentoo (or attempting to) and am wondering if > > anyone has had success. > > > > It looks like newer kernels have some builtin support for the hardware. > > Due to its form factor I will be setting up distcc to help with the > > build process, and using -bin packages for monstrosities like firefox > > and libreoffice. > > > > Dan > > > > Well, so far, so good. I managed to configure an EFI stub kernel and > booted it on the first try! I think I still need to compare some > information on the kernel between the Mint boot USB and what I have, but > other than that, it boots! > > It was then I found out that LABEL= and PARTLABEL= in fstab are two > different things as I watched systemd fall flat on its face. > > Dan > >
