IMHO, if your worried about your tarballs being corrupted wget them and md5 them. That is what I always did back in 2004.X days of installing gen2. Good luck on the penguicon server - as far as kernel panics go, dunno what your experiance level with nix is but gen2 is particularly touchy - don't put extra things in your kernel. Know whats in there, and know that your using it. Finally, as for gen2 borking another release, yah. At least the amd64 is supported a lot better when they first tried and most of the apps still compile when they see your use flags. <div> On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <<a href="mailto:HarringM@michigan.gov">HarringM@michigan.gov</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> here is the thread for everyone.... Well I normally don't use KDE or Gnome...its either fluxbox or xfce4...so I'm inclined to use the smaller gtk apps... for those who want a quick Gentoo install you might want to check out Korrora or Vidallinux( this uses the anaconda installer). >>> "Caleb Cushing" <<a href="mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com">xenoterracide@gmail.com</a>> 3/1/2006 3:26 PM >>> yeah I think I notice that. is it that much better than kuruu or kentoo? which I believe do the same thing but are KDE QT apps instead of gtk. And GD for got to add the list again. On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <<a href="mailto:HarringM@michigan.gov">HarringM@michigan.gov</a> > wrote: > > you'll have to update your packages.keywords file as it is on the  ~x86 > branch but its pretty handy...much like synaptic for debian. > > > >>> "Caleb Cushing" < <a href="mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com">xenoterracide@gmail.com</a>> 3/1/2006 2:51 PM >>> > I've thought about it... but haven't yet. > > On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <<a href="mailto:HarringM@michigan.gov"> HarringM@michigan.gov</a>> wrote: > > > > have you guys tried Porthole for emerging packages? It takes some of the > > guesswork out of what USE flags you might need. > > > > >>> "Caleb Cushing" < <a href="mailto:xenoterracide@gmail.com">xenoterracide@gmail.com</a>> 3/1/2006 2:41 PM >>> > > no they haven't released an upgrade guide for the 2006.0 profile the one > > for > > the 2005.x works though. I've already changed. I converted my laptop to > > native 64... all but the x86 is still on command line. I had 3 spot's > > where > > I got IO error's extracting tarballs from the disk. I suppose it could > be > > the disk... but one caused a kernel panic. I got it installed though. > > seems > > to be running fine. I don't have X yet I should soon. Seems they are > > putting > > the binarys on the disk we maybe should have waited to start building > our > > penguicon server. They are going to have a KDE version too from what I > > read. > > also hint for USE flags check out packages on this page > > <a href="http://www.gentoo-portage.com/"> http://www.gentoo-portage.com/</a> > > here's what it says about flags for firefox > > <a href="http://www.gentoo-portage.com/www-client/mozilla-firefox/USE">http://www.gentoo-portage.com/www-client/mozilla-firefox/USE </a> > > of course mozilla suite isn't the same as firefox but you can search > > mozilla > > too... > > > > anyways I bet our problem with the disks are related to QA borking a > > another > > series of releases... I could be wrong mine could have been marring on > the > > disk... those tarballs are sensitive. still the disk having a kernel > panic > > over anything... oh and gcc-3.4.4 is on the disks now. for all those who > > haven't upgraded and 3.4.5 became stable yesterdayish on x86. > > > > speaking of the box. Are we going to run firefox & thunderbird 1.5? or > > stick > > to stable? I could ask pratt (the maintainer for gentoo) when he thinks > he > > will be moving it to stable. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div> -- Best Regards, Florian Mettetal