[Lust] St albans and Luton LUG

[Chris Thompson]

Sorry Ian,

not come across Netwinder before. What chipset is it? Gentoo do quite a
wide range. Dunb questions as I am sure you have already checked it out.

I have been looking at gentoox which puts gentoo on your Xbox. May be a
laugh, but a pain in the bum to use the keypads to navigate the shell!

Chris

> Hi Guys,
>
> Glad to see there is some life in LUST, if not the other way around.
>
> Happy also to see there is a local gentoo expert as I converted to this
> last
> year and like it a lot. Have it happily whirring away on my main desktop
> machine, but would dearly like to get it up and running on a spare
> Netwinder
> I have. I see someone has done a boot-loader, but I can't seem to find
> anything else.
>
> Anyone care to share some thoughts?
>
> Kind regds
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian MacDougall [mailto:ian.macdougall at pinnacle.co.uk]
> Sent: 16 March 2004 08:42
> To: Chris Thompson
> Cc: lust at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Lust] St albans and Luton LUG
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 21:37, Chris Thompson wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> sounds like you have the pedigree to breeze the exam. It may be worth a
>> quick flip through the pdf on the LPI site as a friend of mine who has
>> been using Linux since almost the very beginning read my book and
>> realised that he had forgotten some of the basic stuff through lack of
>> use
>
> Cool thanks for that.
>
>> So you are a SUN head are you? Have just finished getting gentoo to run
>> on a Netra T1. I have gone grey overnight and sworn off all SUN kit for
>> a while till my nerves recover
>> :-)
>
> Nah not a Sun head, but one of my jobs was mostly programming and the
> only *nix servers I had to play with were Suns. Not touched one now for
> about 4 years. It was nice to get gcc and samba working on one of them.
>
>> Please let me know if you guys are thinking of arranging a meet, but
>> realise that if everyone is busy it can be a bit of a pain.
>
> I'm sure it will be announced on the list.
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Ian
>
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