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This is going to be fairly useless info...

I know there are utilities out there that identify your motherboard by decrypting the serial number...I wouldn't even know where to begin to look though. However, if you could find one, that certainly would be easier than tearing it all apart again.

Mine comes up on the post data after the bios version.

There's nowhere marked on your mb?

And a happy new year!

We also say dove (pronounced with a strong O) instead of dived!

My idea was see if it offerred any advantage being installed on an older system. But, as I don't have the time to dedicate to the install, it's drug out for a while now. As I said before, fortunately, it's not a computer I have to have running.

kewl, thanx

OK, made it all the way through, got the system installed, put in grub, made a grub.cong, removed the disc, rebooted...

YEAH there's the grub with the Gentoo splash! I did it...

Select Gentoo Linux 2.6.22-r9...

File not found

ARRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

thanx

that would work, I like hotkeys, but having all of these useless buttons annoys me...I think I know what you're talking about, I'll give it a try when I finish wityh the nightmare that is turning out to be a gentoo install! Thanx.

got it sorted, I had to do my make.conf based on a model someone in the gentoo forums posted for me. I'm syn'ing now. I'll let you know how far I get this time! I will admit one thing, besides being annoying, it does make you feel pretty powerful to type a few lines of commands and then have an hour...

OK, I have this old HP SK2505 B multimedia keyboard. On it, there are track skip left and right, play/pause, stop, eject, mute, internet, email, search, shortcut1, shortcut2, shortcut3, help and standby buttons, as well as a volume control knob. I've been looking around for quite a while now to see ...

OK, I stopped last night b'cause I was tired. Resumed this morning. Set up network - check - less than 1 minute set up user accounts - check - less than 1 minute set up partitions - check - about 5 minutes assign filesystems - check - about 5 more minutes download stage3 - check - about 15 minutes t...

rebooted, I selected the gentoo default kernel and US keymap, now I am waiting as it tries to boot...last time I allowed it to do that automagically, let's see if this works, if not, I may have to move from the Gentoo 2007 full (live) DVD to the alternate install. I am doing this on an old box...(In...

It won't even switch to the other terminals...hmmm, maybe a reboot is in order....

I started an hour ago, I am sitting here looking at: *Finalizing udev configuration ... which has been up there for 45 minutes...I don't see my hard drive grinding away or my DVD-ROM spinning...I wonder if it's actually doing anything...the _ is just sitting there blinking at me... I'm using the Gen...