On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: > I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very > basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the > current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the > wired or wireless network devices so I'm unable to grab the stage3 and > portage tarballs.
That CD is too old, either use one of the snapshots or something like eexubuntu to install Gentoo. > I was going to put them on a CD then work on the network stuff later > with a more recent kernel, then I realised that the SSDs in use won't > really like compilations being done (apart from it being achingly slow > on this processor). SSDs use wear levelling, so they aren't subject to the same write restrictions as more basic flash devices. But if you're still nervous about this, point PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a USB or SD device. I've been running Gentoo on my Eee for a year,running ~x86 so plenty of compiling, and no noticeable problems with the SD card I use for PORTAGE_TMPDIR. As for compilation times, I was pleasantly surprised. It's not fast, but a lot faster than I expected. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses
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