Running linux on Dell Dimension 8400

Introduction

I'm about to buy a home-computer. The main requirements for this are:

Update: The computer is finally in-house, I'll add post updates here as I get it installed.

Contents

Planning stage
My original writeup of plans for how to proceed (something to do while waiting for the computer to arrive... ;-). Not that relevant anymore, as I learn more and more, I find that many of my original plans are irrelevant...
Disk setup and initial install
This is a summary of my experiences getting linux to access the fairly new disk-controller and making the initial install of dual-boot Gentoo Linux and Windows XP.
NVidia and X
A brief walk-through of how I set up X and got it working with my nVidia-card.
NAT and DHCP
MythTV
Scanner and printer

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Sist oppdatert: 22. februar 2005