Windows woes

[Kyle Furlong]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> James Dunne wrote:
>> pragma wrote:
>>> In article <e0e770$21p$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, John C says...
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Also, linux is not without its warts too.  I'm having a hell of a time
>>> trying to
>>> get it to support Nforce3 from a floppy install - AFAIK, it can't be
>>> done w/o
>>> some serious hacking or using a CD instead.
>>>
>>> - EricAnderton at yahoo
>> I set up my dual-boot XP/Gentoo machine at home using VMWare since I
>> have an nForce motherboard.  I can't really do a network install booted
>> into Linux without drivers for the network card... so VMWare to the
>> rescue.  I set it loose to use the physical hard drive so I can install
>> Linux onto my HD and boot into it later, *after* I download the nVidia
>> drivers for my system.
>>
>> I decided to leave it installing in a VM because it takes a helluva long
>> time to install Gentoo (compiling, compiling, compiling...).  I think I
>> had it running for > 2.5 days before I had a minimally working system.
>> Now I barely use it and just use XP as the regular OS.
> 
> So true.. except that it only takes ~8 hours to compile the base system
> on an Athlon XP. You can download all the necessary drivers to a
> FAT-partition before starting the installation. That way you can run
> things natively.
> 

If you want fast installation, wth were you doing using gentoo? You want a mandrake, fedora, or ubuntu.