Windows woes

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> 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.

Their package repositories is a bit smaller. Gentoo is always ready to
compile everything you might ever need and it's hard as a rock in terms
of both stability and security.

-- 
Jari-Matti