One Of Those Nights – Descent Into Gentoo

So I’ve decided to finally install Gentoo Linux. I’m unsure as to how much I’ll like it, I can’t use Unity, which is a bit annoying since that’s the only reason I’m on Ubuntu.

I’m currently backing up about 100GB of data as I think it’s very likely that I’ll end up wiping my entire disk by accident and having to reinstall. Hopefully it isn’t a huge pain to get it done. It will definitely take hours, if only because I still have at least 1 hour left of backing up.

Still, it should be a learning experience.

edit: Ah hell. Finally finished backing up. Now shrinking and formatting. This is going to take forever. But in the end I get a fully optimized and hardened build with only exactly what I want on it.

edit2: Now to format the unallocated space.

edit3: Compiling my hardened kernel. Hopefully this wasn’t all a waste.

edit4: It wasn’t just a waste! It was a waste and then some. I now have some seriously screwed up partitioning and I had to reinstall Ubuntu (wtf? lol) so… I’m unhappy about this lol I think I can salvage it though…