Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday 27 May 2011 05:31:15 Dale wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com
> > 
> > <mailto:laebshade@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     You let a small problem like the latest live cd not booting your
> >     system scare you away?
> >     
> >     Have you tried using an older live cd?  If it's a video issue,
> >     maybe detecting your monitor wrong, how about turning on the
> >     framebuffer (there's an option for that)?
> >     
> >     It's doable man, don't give up.
> > 
> > Of course it's doable.  It's just the last straw.  This left my web
> > site down for a week; I obviously can't always keep up with Gentoo's
> > requirements, so I'm going to an easier distro that I'm equally
> > familiar with.
> 
> But you will be back.  ;-)

Ha, ha, ha!  :-))

Ubuntu has come in leaps and bounds over the years and its maintenance is now 
easy-peasy.  The problems start when you depart from the vanilla Ubuntu distro 
and end up with a modified system - I have been looking after a laptop with 
Ubuntu for a couple of years now and as long as you keep to the distro way of 
doing things it pretty much runs without problems and upgrades are almost 
seamless.

That said for someone who's been using Gentoo for some time now it should not 
be a big deal to look after a machine like Kevin's, even if the monitor won't 
play initially.  I'm still running Gentoo on a 13 year old Pentium III 1GHz 
laptop which is refusing to die and compiling anything serious on it is at 
least an overnight affair.

The monitor problem is probably a KMS configuration issue.  Add nomodeset at 
the boot line and you should probably get your monitor again.

Before you throw in the towel on Gentoo completely, may I recommend 
SystemRescueCD.  It is updated more often, has the latest drivers and pretty 
much works better that the Gentoo LiveCD (most of the time).  The only thing 
it does not have is star, which is a package I prefer to do fs backups, but 
that's irrelevant anyway.

Of course Kevin only knows what is best for Kevin.  Enjoy your retirement!

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Regards,
Mick

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