sardonick

Dusted off my old 5-year-old laptop–thinking it might make a good server–low power consumption, built-in UPS.  The new Gentoo Live CD is very slick.  Too bad it doesn’t quite work:

• The LiveCD auto-starts a gnome session.  Too bad it doesn’t allow the screen resolution to be any higher than 640×480.  This size is unfortunately too small for the graphical auto-installer to be useable.
• The command line auto-installer is brittle.  After 6 failed tries with an error dump that closes too quickly to look at, I’m going for the old-school command-line install.  Oh well.