For anyone who cares about the progress on the old toy that I refered to here, I’ve chosen to try installing Gentoo on it because Debian wouldn’t even start the installer, for whatever reason. The checksums matched. Dunno.
I got it istalled a while ago, as far as the base system (no X server), but thought that I’d messed up the bootloader install (this is new ground for me). I had not. Seems that /etc/silo.conf had a default timeout of 30 seconds, like the old Win 98 boot screen, and I was just not waiting long enough. So, I reduced the timeout.
I then proceeded to install X (with a basic KDE install). Agter 2 days of compiling, it has finished, but the config file is still messed up, and some modules now don’t want to load. Looks like another net scour to find out what needs to be done.
All this because the original mouse was missing and I couldn’t install Solaris. I have two mice now, but I’ve invested so much time into this Gentoo install, I can’t just erase it all without a good go of it.
Stubborn, wha?
UPDATE: I’ve deleted Gentoo in an attempt to install Solaris 8. We’ll see how long I stay away.
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