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Dragonball = 5.5 GB Dragonball Z = 11.0 GB Dragonball GT = 2.1 GB __________ Total = 18.6 GB that's the exact size, I kid you not. My bad ... it's a little less than 20 GB.

YAY! Let's hear it for html_guru !Congrats man .

Well, I'm done . I must say, it was quite easy after I removed the faulty RAM. A straight, simple, by-the-book, easy install. Since I read the handbook 3 times already, it wasn't a big deal. Started the installation at 9PM with a stage 3 and by 1:00 AM, I had X running, and alsa configured and was listening to songs using mpg123 while I was finishing the base configuration. I gave the command 'emerge kdebase-startkde kicker' and went to sleep and in the morning, I had a working KDE installation. But, in KDE, i realised that konsole wasn't installed . Back to the console and 'emerge konsole'. Now, I've got a konsole and an empty KDE installation. So, the rest of the morning consisted of emerging Konqueror, amarok, ymessenger, firefox and kate. Now, it's a pretty neat installation. but a lot of things are missing. So, I decided to have the entire KDE package now, so 'emerge kde-meta'. It might take some time, but I'm in no hurry. The important things are working fine. But, for some reason, nvidia still doesn't load up. I've tried mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0chown root.video /dev/nvidia*chmod 0660 /dev/nvidia* but it still isn't working. This is the error I got: Any suggestions? And another thing... gentoo is definitely fast ... it starts up in 40 sec upto kdm and shutdown from KDE to power off is in 20 sec.... but I was kinda hoping for blazing speed . Of course, the sound in amarok doesn't skip no matter what I do, and the applications and programs open much faster than they did in slackware, but it's not exactly as fast as I expected it to be. I was under the impression that the windows would actually zoom around irrespective of the load. Maybe the lag is because I haven't installed nvidia yet and only have 256MB RAM. Of course gentoo on 256MB RAM is faster than Slackware on 512MB. I think gentoo is kinda neat. Once you have everything installed and in place, it's a pretty cool distro. I think people are afraid of gentoo (like I was) because of the huge amount of documentation to go through and the long hours to be spent in configuring the system. It loses its purpose if the system on which it is installed doesn't have a decent (atleast a 100kbps download speed) internet connection.

You say you drew those pictures?!!! Awesome!! They're really cool... all of them are so amazingly similar to the real thing, you sure are good at it .Wow ... and I thought I was the only one to be crazy enough to be obsessed with the Dragonball series. In fact, I've got the entire collection on my hard disk (db, dbz, dbgt) which takes up about 20 GB of space

Well, if you want to learn from the basics of HTML, XHTML, CSS I would highly recommend http://www.w3schools.com/. It's got loads of information and that's where I started out from. There are plenty more sites, but if you are a complete beginner, I would suggest you first try this out.

It's not about breaking into someone else's system... it's just setting it so that others can access your computer without requiring a password.

Well, I don't know how to say this but ... I guess I've been wrong the whole time. I was under the impression that if slack and winxp were working, there shouldn't be a significant problem with the hardware. But now, I just checked each RAM individually using memtest and it seems that one of my RAMs is screwed up. I'll have to get it replaced but I don't think that will happen for another 2 months. Thanks for your help ... I really appreciate you taking your time out for replying so regularly. I really want to try gentoo out and I'll give one last attempt tonight with my 256MB RAM (I checked it thoroughly and there are no problems). I'll post back on the results. Thanks once again for your time .

I guess you're right. I downloaded cpu-z and then checked the hardware specifications. Apparently, I've got one PC2100 and one PC2700. For some very strange reason, there does not appear to be any provision, either on the motherboard (jumpers) nor in the BIOS, to change the FSB or clock speed. I've even searched online and downloaded the lates BIOS update from ASUS. Here are some screenshots of my hardware: Now, I've got some friends over here ... and the FSB of my M/B is apparently 400. So I could find someone and exchange RAMs with him. Which one would you say I should change? the 166MHz one or 133MHz?

Post a message in the thread with your hosting request saying you'd rather take the standard package than the starter package. I think that should do. Of course, that's only if it hasn't been approved yet. For any clarifications, I would suggest you PM one of the mods... Opaque, vizskywalker, moonwitch ....Cheers.

I don't recall overclocking my hardware ... there isn't any option for overclocking given in the manual. One thing I forgot to mention, I have two 256MB RAM cards with different bus speeds. When I bought the 2nd one I didn't think about matching the speeds, I just bought it because it was at an all time low. Can we change the timings or something?My system would restart if I played Doom 3 or HL 2 but, that's only on rare occasions ... it wouldn't restart much if I stopped all the services and resources. Quake 3 runs fine without any glitches. I did try benchmarking my graphics card with 3dmark, but that's different I guess .Anyways, I've spent way too much time on this ... so back to slackware 10.2 tonight .

I vote for the one with the beetle moving in the background of the text. The others are good, but I like this one the best .

Hi smyke ,A hearty welcome to Xisto from me and the others on this board. A word of advice ... post properly and follow the rules. This is a great place and we've got lots of talented people.Cheers.

Well... that's that for gentoo. I tried a stage 3 install today and still errors. Well, maybe there is a small problem in my hardware but I don't think I can do anything about it. Anyways, everything else works fine and I did learn a lot of things from the gentoo install . I think I'm an expert at compiling kernels now . Thanks for your help qwijibow, but I'm going back to slackware. Long live binary installs!

Wow ... so that's how Xisto started. Now, I'm feeling guilty for using adblock on Xisto. Will it help if I <- snipped -> everytime I login to Xisto?}

I'm almost at the point of giving up now . I ran memtest and it gave me errors in excess of 1000! Does this mean my memory is completely screwed? I haven't had any memory problems before neither with windows nor slackware. Of course there is that occasional reboot in windows (maybe once a week or once a fortnight) but that's attributed more to windows than the hardware right?About the md5sum ... that's exactly what i did. I wrote the image on the CD, then re-imaged it and then cross-checked it's md5sum with the server's. Now, it's consistently giving me an error whenever it tries to emerge kdelibs. I tried it once again just now and it gave me a segmentation-fault. I do enjoy tinkering around with it ... but there's no point if I keep running into a wall. So far, I've been at it in excess of 4 days and it still hasn't worked nor is it showing any promise of working. Maybe there's some base problem in the stage1 and stage2 installs that I did. Would it be better if I started over and did a stage3 install?

Actually, I'm starting to think that maybe installing gentoo is not such a good idea. If it's gonna screw up my H/W I'd bettter stick to slack. I've got an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ and Asus A7N8X-VM/400 Motherboard with 512MB and 160GB HDD. Been using it for a year now and never had any problem with any other distro nor windows. Maybe the processor is overheating, but I've removed the side panel to give it some more ventilation. I've checked the md5sum of the CD image after burning this time before installing and it's ok. There is hardware monitoring support on my motherboard, but how do I observe it while emerging? Is there any program to let me do that? I don't have memtest86 boot disk. In fact, I don't even have a floppy drive. Is there any image I can download for a CD to test the memory? No underclocking my system either, there isn't any provision as such. Anyway, here's the make.conf file: I did a complete install from stage1... just for the experience . But tell me, if this thing is going to screw up my hardware, I'll stop installing gentoo right now!

Hi qwijibow . Well...I've finally installed X and ALSA. I'm on my way to installing KDE and now I can atleast listen to songs while it's compiling. But, there still seems to be some problem during the 'emerge'-ing process. While comipiling and 'make'-ing huge installations like KDE, it suddenly stops in between with an error saying: No bug report, it is likely to be a Hardware or OS error. Any ideas why that's happening. It will get installed only if I 'emerge' it 3-4 times. I mean, does this happen to everyone? It's a little annoying because, the error shows up after an hour of compiling. Also, I can't seem to be able to install the nvidia drivers. I've got nvidia geforce4 mx onboard and I've followed all the instructions on the gentoo site for nvidia, but still X doesn't start. It gives some sort of error about 'could not initialise NVIDIA kernel module' or something and exits. It's working if I use the 'nv' driver but not with 'nvidia'. Any ideas?

I usually get that problem when I'm trying to load a game while running a whole lot of applications. It used to happen when I had 256MB RAM but now, I have 512 and I don't see it at all. It actually depends on how much memory the game requires and how much space has been allocated for virtual memory by the system. I would suggest you try firefoxsilver's method and see if it helps any before you buy a new hard disk. Cheers .

I just logged into windows and made an iso image with the RW disk I installed from and apparently, it's md5sum doesn't match. So, I've got burnt the image into an unused CD-R and am now installing gentoo again ... from scratch :mellow:Anyways, just ignore my previous post because there was a problem with the disk and it shouldn't happen again this time.

Well... I've tried re-emerging. But it isn't working. This is the error message I keep getting the minute it tries to install arts: I get something similar to this for mplayer as well. Any ideas?

Well... actually it's kinda fun . It's not the kinda thing you want to do every week, but a one-time experience is pretty good. Well, I'm up against another wall now. For some reason, when i try 'emerge kdebase-startkde' it installs some of the files, but when it comes to 'arts' it exits with a 'segmentation fault'. I didn't really pay much attention to this, but it's been happening quite a bit till now. When I did 'emerge mplayer' also, I got a segmentation fault for 'gtk'. Any ideas why? Is the OS corrupted? I installed it from the minimal install disk burnt onto a RW disk. Is it possible for the OS to get corrupted inspite of getting installed if the RW disk gets corrupted?

Still using lynx ... so please bear with me if the formatting isn't good.Actually qwijibow, the reason I even considered gentoo was because you spoke so highly about it . I've learnt so many things already about Linux ... it's mind boggling. I think installing gentoo is one of the best ways you can get to know about the intricacies of the Linux environment. Right now, I'm in the middle of 'emerge kde' and I think that'll take quite some time. Say... I've just seen inittab, and it doesn't have any runlevel to start X directly. How do I set that?

Well, I finally got it solved ... after more than 24 hours . I had to boot from the liveCD again and recompile the kernel. Apparently I had overlooked the driver that was compatible with mine ... the forcedeth module. I tried to compile it into the kernel, but it didn't work. So, had to compile it as a module and add 'forcedeth' to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and now it works. In fact, I am typing this from lynx right now

That's the problem... it isn't there. The kernel doesn't have the module for nvnet. I downloaded the drivers from nvidia, but it isn't working.

Well... I've finally done it! I've completely erased my slackware installation and embarked on installing gentoo for the first time after deliberating for a long time . I must say, the installation handbook is great. It covers almost everything. I followed the handbook word for word and starting with a stage2 installation (where the heck is stage1? All the mirrors only had stage2 and stage3), and everything went great. I rebooted and it actually worked... I got a login prompt and everything .But while booting, I noticed a message that said 'eth0 not found'. I've tried to start it again using /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start ... but it gives me the same error 'eth0 not found'. My motherboard is an Asus A7N8XVM-400 and the ethernet card is built-in on the motherboard itself. Now, my guess is that the kernel doesn't have the drivers for my LAN card compiled in. I used the 'gentoo-sources' kernel during installation (the network works with the liveCD) and it didn't have any driver for nforce or nvnet. I downloaded the NFORCE drivers from nvidia and tried to run them, but it isn't working. It fails with an error. The driver worked in Slackware and Mandriva, but for some reason isn't working in gentoo.Any help would be great... I've spent a day on this installation already, I want to see this thing through. Thanks.