Windows woes

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

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.

-- 
Jari-Matti