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I tried Vidalinux on a desktop I had and I really liked it so I want to dump Suse 9.3 off my laptop (too many issues) and install a Gentoo based distro. I can't find my Vidalinux cd to install it on my laptop and the torrents seem to be no longer working since 1.2 will come out Aug 1. I really don't want to wait until then to have my laptop up and running a distro I like.
Why not just install Gentoo? because I keep getting an Error 15 when I boot and can't seem to fix the problem of grub not finding my kernel so I would much rather go with a distro that will handle that on it's own and with a basic set of apps to start with.
It made Gentoo easy to install and up and running in a fraction of the time. Anything else simular?
I know it's not exactly what you want, but I do Gentoo installs from within Knoppix. It only requires 1 step to be different, and you have a working OS while you do the install. I'm sure you could do the base install, and instead of rebooting, stay in Knoppix and compile xorg, kde, gnome, whatever, and then reboot andconfigure xorg.
Originally posted by prophet621 I tried Vidalinux on a desktop I had and I really liked it so I want to dump Suse 9.3 off my laptop (too many issues) and install a Gentoo based distro. I can't find my Vidalinux cd to install it on my laptop and the torrents seem to be no longer working since 1.2 will come out Aug 1. I really don't want to wait until then to have my laptop up and running a distro I like.
Why not just install Gentoo? because I keep getting an Error 15 when I boot and can't seem to fix the problem of grub not finding my kernel so I would much rather go with a distro that will handle that on it's own and with a basic set of apps to start with.
It made Gentoo easy to install and up and running in a fraction of the time. Anything else simular?
Have you checked this for pointers on the error message?
Or you can go here and go to the mirror section to download the iso.
Thanks for all the replies. I downloaded VidaLinux overnight and will install it when I get home.
I did find those errors listed at the Gentoo site but it didn't help. It mentioned recompiling the kernel when it wasn't found and other solutions but none helped. The Kerner was exactly where it was supposed to be and showed up when I looked for it following the instructions provided. There was some other problem, something I did wrong along the way and I really don't want to spend another couple of hours doing it again and risk the same result when I can just do it an easier way.
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