gentoo 2004 mumblings - good ole bleeding edge

[Alma J Wetzker]

Collins Richey wrote:
> Tune out now all you gentoo haters - you have been warned!
> 
> Ever subject to boredom and looking for something to do, I set out a
> couple of weeks back on some experimentation with gentoo.
> 

[snip misc back patting and crowing]

> The key to this working so well, IMO, is that glibc with nptl was
> installed first, and thus I've missed out on some of the subtle
> incompatibilities that plague upgrades like this.
> 
> I haven't done a great deal with kde or gnome, but they work ok.  I do
> need kde for my daughter, so now that I have it I can move this system
> image into production.
> 
> I still need to tinker with sane and my kodak camera.

The key question is:  How did you do it?  I tried doing something very similar 
a week or two back and I have a system that kernel panics after the second 
output.  I used the 1.4 CD to get everything going.  I was hoping to get rid 
of the devfs since it is (reportedly) dead and 2.6 doesn't use it.

Tell, tell, inquiring minds want to know.

     -- Alma