Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:55:23 +0100 Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is a little OT but I love that old board so much I had > to chime in with my $0.02. Is that the game? I have an old abit bp6 on loan out to a friend as a workstation. two pentium IIs or pentium II class

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-27 Thread Matt Harrison
Alan E. Davis wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I > recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then > summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had lots > of cooling

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:09:32 -0500 Dale wrote: ...[snip]... > That Tyan does sound interesting. I would LOVE to have a dual CPU > rig, especially if they both have dual cores. I still remember when > Leo on the Screen Savers built a dual CPU rig. > > Since I run folding 24/7 here, that would

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: Hello. My motherboard is an ASUS M2N-E. Not high end. And I have my doubts about it at times. At first, especially, there were moments. It's been less than six months. I got the MB as a kit with CPU and 1GB of RAM. I have upgraded the RAM to 2GB as a kit of Dual Channe

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
Hello. My motherboard is an ASUS M2N-E. Not high end. And I have my doubts about it at times. At first, especially, there were moments. It's been less than six months. I got the MB as a kit with CPU and 1GB of RAM. I have upgraded the RAM to 2GB as a kit of Dual Channel ram. Earlier, I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: Actually, this about my fifth or sixth Gentoo install, but it was quite a challenging one. I am pleased with the machine I have. While it's not a low end machine, it isn't a high end workstation either. I have alot of HDD space, 2GB of RAM. A dual core 2200 MHz Athlon

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread Philip Webb
080726 Alan E. Davis wrote: > Jul 26, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Congratulations and welcome to gentoo-land. It's quite a feat of >> accomplishment to get through your very first gentoo install :-) > Actually, this about my fifth or sixth, but it was quite challeng

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
Alan On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations and welcome to gentoo-land. It's quite a feat of > accomplishment to get through your very first gentoo install :-) > Actually, this about my fifth or sixth Gentoo install, but it was quite a challeng

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal > errors, perhaps).  This system runs MUCH faster, and more efficiently > than it did on Ubuntu.  1GB of RAM was often topped out on Ubuntu, > but on this machine even with four compile

[gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-25 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have worked my way through the installation of Gentoo 2008.0 from the LiveCD (amd64), running into several wrinkles along the way, and eventually overcoming most of them. I plan to document the process at another time. I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal errors, per