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NoBonus:
I know any grandma should be able to install this okay using the handbook, but I followed the handbook word for word and I have already worked through a grub error on the msg board and now I am working through my latest error on the msg board.  THe thing is, the computer I am using is a MicronPC computer that is completely cookie-cutter; no special components or anything.  Just a plain-Jane P3 with cd-rom and floppy.

barvaz:

--- Quote from: GadgetGeek on June 14, 2004, 04:02:15 pm ---but I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a minimal machine (old AMD K6 200) and setting it up to run advanceMame and advanceMenu on it.
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By the way, if you are no yet familiar with AdvanceCD, it does exactly that - a minimal Linux with built in AdvanceMame and AdvanceMenu that just boots from the cdrom. Just tried it few days ago and it works great (if it can recognize your hardware).

- barvaz

NoBonus:
I did advancecd too and, other than a video card conflict (caused a little problem, nothing major though), it was great.  A great way to take mame with you to your relative's house.

GadgetGeek:

--- Quote from: barvaz on June 14, 2004, 04:08:33 pm ---By the way, if you are no yet familiar with AdvanceCD, it does exactly that - a minimal Linux with built in AdvanceMame and AdvanceMenu that just boots from the cdrom. Just tried it few days ago and it works great (if it can recognize your hardware).

- barvaz

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Oh, I'm quite familiar with advanceCD.  I'm using that for guidance as well on this minimal install.  But thanks for pointing it out anyway.  Others will surely appreciate the genius of that CD.

seibu:

--- Quote from: barvaz on June 14, 2004, 01:12:22 pm ---X windows server (known as simply "X") is the windows server that is the base for most of the GUIs on Linux and Unix platforms. You don't have much choice here if you want to run a windows GUI, you need to use X (you have a little choice of which X implementation, but I won't get into that). Both KDE and Gnome require X.

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I would say try to get away without X. AdvanceMAME doesn't need it, and that's the best reason to run an emu box from Linux. Both KDE and Gnome are pretty shaky, clunky pieces of software and offer a far worse GUI experience than even Windows XP IMO. XFCE is much better - but why do you need a GUI at all? Working from the console is quicker, easier and far more stable.

I only have a little Linux experience, but I found my Gentoo/AdvanceMAME setup so worth the effort. Without X slowing everything down and with the whole OS optimised to my architecture, I got far better performance than I could reasonably expect from a P3 800.

BTW, Installing Gentoo from stage 3 is not necessarily easier than from Stage 1 or 2. There are different pitfalls for each. Also, I found Slackware to be quite difficult to install, without any real performance advantage over easier distros like Fedora and Mandrake.

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