Opentec 'Openfire' RPC-III and Gentoo Linux

Hi everyone,

I have an Australian-made Opentec 'OpenFire' RPC-III rugged P4 ex-military
laptop system which I'd like to run Gentoo Linux on, however when the Gentoo
CD boots it can't start the X-server.

I was wondering if anyone else has managed to use Gentoo on an Openfire RPC
system and what you needed to do in order to get it working properly?

Regards,

Craig.
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:38:32 +0000, Kralizec Craig wrote:

> I have an Australian-made Opentec 'OpenFire' RPC-III rugged P4 ex-military
> laptop system which I'd like to run Gentoo Linux on, however when the
> Gentoo CD boots it can't start the X-server.

I suggest you *don't* use the X/GTK/GUI gentoo installer.
Stick with the plain install CD and the wonderful wonderful
installation manual. I've done numerous gentoo installs,
(more than a dozen) - tried the gui CG once, and never again.
Maybe it's better now, but 6 months ago I didn't like it.

IMHO it's harder to use the gui cd than walking through the
install handbook, it's almost like a test script.

cheers,
-kt

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