Running linux on Dell Dimension 8400

Introduction

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

• Record and play video (Myth-TV)
• Play music
• Doom 3
• Photo editing
• Running linux (I just hope I can get Doom to work...)

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