Aquarium

I haven't posted any photos for a while. I took a lot at Christmas, but not much else this winter. Last weekend I went to the Seattle Aquairum. I took some photo. None of them are that great, but here are a few.

Gentoo

So I opted to try out Gentoo (to get a chance to muck around with stuff). So far, I've been a little disappointed. The installer refused to get eth0 operational, despite a few hours of coaxing. I switched my ethernet cable and got it to accept eth1, however.

The instructions are quite long with lots of steps. I finally waded through them and rebooted to get a system that didn't quite work. First, neither eth0, nor eth1 would work and it complained about devfs not being enabled in the kernel, but this was required for gentoo. It turned out that the instructions do tell you to enable devfs in the kernel (but the fact that there are zillion options on what you can compile into the kernel and the fact that it is explicitly listed as "OBSOLETE" lead me to not include it). I went to recompile the kernel and then I noticed that /boot wasn't mounted properly. Sigh.

After two recompiles of the kernel, devfs is included (and that error message is gone) and I have an network connection. I think the /boot think is a wrong option in /etc/fstab. (I can manually mount that drive fine).

So now I just need to figure out what else I need to install to get things going. (It seems that by default you get practically nothing - pick a command and type which and odds are it will say that its not in the path...)