Topic Title: difficult install / instablilities? and unoptimized bootCD

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Hi!I was trying to install a new gentoo on my brothers machine (He did his 4th WinXP reinstall this year, wanted some help - and i talked him into sparing some 2GB for linux.) Great. I installed a stage 3 tarball - worked fine. Did the partitioning (root - reiserfs, boot - ext2, no swap - he has 768MB RAM). Fought a little with the kernel to get him to see the Promise RAID controller. Emerged X - took ages, but worked. But then I failed to emerge kde - always failed to compile kdelibs. I took various steps to work around the errors (upgrade gcc to 3.2.2, executed this fix_lib_links_something-script in sys-devel/gcc/files, manually ln -sed missing libs), but still the emerge failed. I even killed all CFLAGS - but no succesful compile. I started a run of memtest - no errors in the first 15 minutes - and slowed the FSB from 133 Mhz to 100 MHz (so the Athlon 1200 MHz ran at 900 Mhz) - but still the compile failed. Sometimes the emerge aborted with a seg fault. Later I saw that even lynx seg faulted on exit - so I dicided the system is pretty messed up - and gave up. BTW I started Saturday ... and my brother set a time limit this morning - he didnt want to sacrify his machine to unsuccesful compiles ... So 2 hours before he came back from university I started a ftp-install of SuSE 8.1 and finished it with kde and openoffice before he was back. I know this is not comparable, but it still leads me to the following question:If the install didnt fail for hardware reasons (which i dont believe, see above): Are packages unmasked too soon? (gcc 3.2.2 ???)Is it possible to generate a unoptimized boot-CD of gentoo with packages comparable to knoppix-linux? With emerge/portage packages could be optimized/updated afterwards. Or even updated bit by bit whenever a newer ebuild is available. The CD wouldnt have to be updated with every new rc-release, I think, but would be attractive to newbies to linux ....Im just thinking about the hype the knoppix-CD generated (at least here in Germany).

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