My wife finally got all of her pictures out of storage on my old laptop, so it's now free for me to do with it what I will I figure it's a good time to go ahead and get back to tinkering in linux since it isn't doing anything else. To be honest, I don't think it's been fired up in 3-4 months before today. Anyhow, it doesn't have a built-in wireless card since it's 6 years old, and at this point I'm not sure I want to spend the money on one for it. If the battery is still good enough to handle internet surfing and playing music for a decent amount of time I'll think about it, but mainly this is going to be an 'educational toy.'
Anyhow, I used gentoo for a couple months about a year ago, but it was setup for me and afterwards I really didn't do much as far as installing anything or tweaking with stuff. What I'd like to do is plug it in to my router and sit there long enough to get it setup, and then be able to disconnect and move to wherever in the house once it's finished downloading and let it work on compiling. Is this possible?
If I can't do that, or maybe even if I can, I had one other idea that might be nice- Boot into a livecd [whether knoppix or a gentoo based one, not so important], and use a terminal to install gentoo while still leaving myself with internet usability. Not that I can't walk into the next room and look at the handbook on my desktop computer, but it would be more convenient to go through it as I'm installing it on the same computer. Can this be done, and more importantly, can it be done easily? Not that I'm against a challenge, but if it ends up being too much work I'll just walk back and forth. Small steps here
Anyhow, I used gentoo for a couple months about a year ago, but it was setup for me and afterwards I really didn't do much as far as installing anything or tweaking with stuff. What I'd like to do is plug it in to my router and sit there long enough to get it setup, and then be able to disconnect and move to wherever in the house once it's finished downloading and let it work on compiling. Is this possible?
If I can't do that, or maybe even if I can, I had one other idea that might be nice- Boot into a livecd [whether knoppix or a gentoo based one, not so important], and use a terminal to install gentoo while still leaving myself with internet usability. Not that I can't walk into the next room and look at the handbook on my desktop computer, but it would be more convenient to go through it as I'm installing it on the same computer. Can this be done, and more importantly, can it be done easily? Not that I'm against a challenge, but if it ends up being too much work I'll just walk back and forth. Small steps here