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Gentoo it is.

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I'm replacing Redhat 9 Linux with Gentoo 2004.0 Linux on my old AMD Athlon 1600+ box tonight. So far, the process has gone very smoothly.

Update: Around the time that I wrote "the process has gone very smoothly" my install suddenly took a bad turn. I am in the bootstrapping part of the install and, every time I run the bootstrap script, the build fails with a compiler, assembler, or loader crash. Each time, it fails in a slighly different part of the process; once in gettext and once in ncurses. One of the error messages indicated a hardware problem and the guys on the #gentoo IRC channel say the same thing. Perhaps I have some faulty memory./p>

Another update: Turns out, I did have a bad memory module and I forgot to properly configure my swap partition. I removed the bad module, configured my swap partition, and the bootstrap build proceded without a hitch.



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Say it isn't so? What about RH 9 didn't you like? :)

Posted by Jesus M. Rodriguez on April 18, 2004 at 10:36 PM EDT #

I've got no real problem with Redhat, I'm in the mood to try something new. Plus, we are all using Gentoo at work for development.

Posted by Dave Johnson on April 18, 2004 at 11:42 PM EDT #

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