Well, Knoppix is working well as a live CD for installing Gentoo. I had some problems with it detecting my CD-ROM drive as 2nd hard drive/partition at first. So I looked up some stuff and found I had to boot up Knoppix using Knoppix nodma… and that worked. 😀 It detected my wireless card and…
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Gentoo vs. my wireless card
Well, I tried to get started with the Gentoo install today. I couldn’t get my MA401 wireless card to work, so I’m gonna have to try an alternative method of getting it to detect my hardware. I downloaded Knoppix… I used to have a CD of it, but I redownloaded it anyway, so that I…
Installing Gentoo Linux: Part 1
Yup, I’m actually going to go through with trying a stage1 Gentoo installation. I figure that would help me learn more about Linux and get a completely custom installation. I downloaded the x86 universal install CD in case my wireless card doesn’t work for installation and I have to do a stage 3 install. Hopefully,…