Recovering Nicely
Newegg once again came through huge on shipping and so my drive arrive about 20 hours after it was ordered, despite being on 2-day shipping; it's now resting comfortably in the tower on a laptop/IDE adapter. Well, not so comfortably really; I've slammed it with somewhere over 300 packages in the last 24 hours. You see, the cool thing about Gentoo is that I can use my Athlon XP and chroot to build the entire system even though it's going to be running on a Pentium-III, so I decided to take full advantage of this and speed up the recovery process by about three days. Today at some point I'll get Mike over here and we'll reassemble the laptop with its drive. Then we just need to get the bootloader squared away (really the only part that's tricky when you build a system inside another one) and we should be good to go.
Good to go, that is, once I configure fluxbox and figure out if I like it. You see, the laptop has been running Waimea (lightest, simplest window manager I've ever used) since 2002, and Waimea has been dead since about 2002 and a half.
Good to go, that is, once I configure fluxbox and figure out if I like it. You see, the laptop has been running Waimea (lightest, simplest window manager I've ever used) since 2002, and Waimea has been dead since about 2002 and a half.
posted by SomeJerk at 11:16 AM
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You definitly should have done some sort of "Well, Vaio just got out of surgery and it looks as if he's going to make it. There might be some complications such as infection, but we all have hope."
Yeah....that would have been much better. Too bad you're not as smart as I am! =P
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