[ale] gentoo

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:41 AM
>
>> I have to say that my Gentoo kernel build was probably
>> the fastest kernel build I've ever done.  maybe this
>> optimization stuff has something going for it.  I've
>> never bothered to build glibc and gcc for 686.  Even
>> Mandrake only builds the packages for pentium, not
>> pentium II/III.

> And mine just crapped out with an error in kernel.o :(

What was the exact error?

I had a similar issue the first time I tried to install Gentoo - took me
three days of starting over, and again, and again, before I finally decided
maybe the guys who were telling me to try changing my RAM knew what they
were talking about.  I even tried running memtest86 on it over an entire
weekend, with no errors.  Lo and behold, the memory that had worked fine for
Windows 200, then Redhat, SuSE, and Mandrake installs, and 2 full days of
memtest, turned out to be the culprit.  New memory, and no more problems.

Charles

>> My computer at home is compiling emacs while I'm at work.
>> Fun fun.  I'm thinking of not putting vi on it--I've never
>> had a michine without vi before.  Oh boy!

> Isn't that against the law???

nano, nano.


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