Well, that was annoying.

[vakkotaur]

After making some progress cleaning up the machine room I naturally had to fiddle with a couple of the machines therein. The good news is that they're going again when I thought they had been having problems. I think it was simply that one CD drive is not something that can be booted from.

I recalled needing DOS or Windows 3.x for something and so set up my first dual-boot (maybe more than dual, but that'll be later) machine. A small partition for DOS and WfW 3.11 and a larger partition for DeLi Linux. After whacking DeLi into shape (sshd needs to have stuff aimed right, su needs to have the right permissions, suauth needs to exist...) I got to adding the newest version of rhapsody - which promptly failed to compile.

Turns out the developer has been using ncurses 5.4 rather than 5.0 as listed on the rhapsody web site. So I grabbed ncurses 5.4 and compiled it. This takes quite a while on a Pentium 90. A. Long. While. That's just ncurses. I now realize I don't have the patience for a gentoo install save perhaps on damnfast hardware. However, after that compile and install, rhapsody did compile and install.

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[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

To give Gentoo its due, it is possible to grab binary packages rather than compiling from source, though that does take away some of the total control that people like Gentoo for. On a Pentium 90, you'd likely grab most everything that way, while someone with what these days is considered medium fast might compile everything save, say, KDE and OpenOffice, and the 1337 D00D with the Athlon 64 might well compile everything. (Actually, the most recent KDE build for me on a not-amazingly-fast-by-today's-standards Sempron 2400 seems to have taken no more than eight hours; I should go grab a program that looks at emerge logs to find out for sure.)