[Sussex] Back to Debian...

[Mark Harrison]

David's email prompted me to make a similar request.

I've finally got rid of SUSE. (To be honest, it might still be installed on
the Compaq, but it's been some months since that was last powered up, so I
can't remember.)

After a brief flirtation with Gentoo, I have finally turned to the Dark
Side, and gone to Debian.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Chapman" <dokterdave at ntlworld.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:34 PM
Subject: [Sussex] New Gentoo user


> I,I have jumped in and joined the growing number of Gentoo users on this
list.
> So Gareth. Can you update my entry on the Lug web site.
> SUSE9.0 & Gentoo 1.4
>
> Please blame John D for the flood of questions that will be flowing this
way.
> He convinced me that I could do it and to be honest my box ,quad Xeon,
must
> surely work more efficiently with a compiled from source OS.
> Tho I started with a stage3 just to get my feet wet.
>
> Q1   Which method would be best for the NVidia kernel drivers "emerge
> nvidia-kernel" or the drivers from NVidia
>
> One thing that has bugged me ,even with SUSE is the partion table for the
> Gentoo disk
> /dev/sde1   ext3      30.5MB     /boot     0 - 30
> /dev/sde2   reiserf   16.9GB     /            31 - 17365
>
> When I boot the box the CHS of the drive is 1024 64 32 all my other drives
are
> 1024 255 64 if I partion it as 1 reiserfs partion its OK (1024 255 64)
> This obviously has some thing to do with the mix of ext3 and reiserfs but
is
> it likely to kill my drive. I would cry like a M$ user if I spent god
knows
> how long compiling Gentoo only to have it vanish.
>
>
>
>
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