Installing Gentoo on a Dell D430

[mcewenzach79]

I've been trying to install gentoo on a Dell D430 laptop, I watched video tutorials to install and tried to follow the steps to install gentoo, but it keeps redirecting me to "error: unknown filesystem." I bought an installation CD on eBay and have tried to install it using the konsole from there, but the version of Gentoo on it is version 13 (forgot the kernel version at the time of writing). I downloaded and untarred the installation folder. Does anyone know what version the Dell D430 needs? (mine has an Intel Centrino processor).

[eccerr0r]

I'm guessing here. Error:unknown filesystem sounds like a grub error, meaning that you seem to be pointing your kernel image to a filesystem that grub doesn't understand.

Your Dell D430 appears to be using a Core2 Duo CPU, and thus can run 64-bit. However the amount of RAM you have may dictate what you can reliably run. I did not have much luck with 2GiB on 64-bit as it would hit swap too quickly.

You're better off downloading a fresh copy from www.gentoo.org else you may be stuck updating stuff that has moved on since Gentoo is a rolling release.
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