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Over the past few months I’ve been wanting to put Windows XP back on my main PC for SAS work. Swapping plugs between computers is just too painful! Unfortunately when partitioning I created too many primary partitions and now I can’t make any more. Unfortunately Windows won’t install on a extended partition. The [...]

Apparently you are supposed to run the etc-update command regularly to keep your Gentoo Linux system healthy. hmm. This was likely the reason for my udev dying a couple of weeks ago. I must say - I’m less impressed with Gentoo now! Oh well, emerge is still the best package management system I’ve seen so [...]

I can now confirm the Linux support for the Asus K8N-E Deluxe nForce 3 250Gb based motherboard is very good (as of 2.6.11 at least!!). I now have SATA working (needed to enable the nVidia SATA support under the SCSI section) and the onboard nForce Audio is also working fine without the official drivers.
I still [...]

Last Monday I purchased a new PC. The specs are pretty spiffy: its a AMD Athlon 64 3000 (2Ghz) system running on an Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard (nForce 3 250Gb based motherboard with SATA and onboard LAN & sound). I decided to try Gentoo Linux with has been with mixed success. Here are some notes:

SystemRescueCd [...]