[I Fix 4 U]

OK, well, it is time to enbark on a gentoo install. As stated before, i was going to wait till christmas holidays. Well, the time is here. Now, i may come up with other questions, but where is the best printer-friendly gentoo handbook. I want the whole entire thing printed, binded and at my side for the time i use gentoo.
I have about 2 webpages w/ specific stuff i wanted to know about gentoo already printed. I'm gonna tweak this baby to the MAX.

Bad news is the formatting of the handbook on the site is hard to use. I really need an up to date printable Gentoo Handbook, the whole whopping thing. Heck it would be best if i could get it somewhere.
Any help on where to find it would be nice. I mean also i wish i could find a good printing place because like last time i checked word said it was 125 pages and firefox said it was 144 i don't know why but it is still alot of time, paper, and ink.

Thanx in advance.

[shadowcat]

If you go to the Handbook page (I'm assuming x86 architecture), look at the top of the purple sidebar on the right -- there should be the word "Print" there. It takes you to a printable layout handbook.

[I Fix 4 U]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...intable&full=1
thats the one i was looking at, it's like 144 pages tho and the formatting is a bit off. Or maybe i'm missing something. I'd love to get this perfectly printed really nice and then bind it and laminate the first page and last to make it really nice at my side.

[angel]

I was planning to try gentoo also (though haven't had a chance yet) and also wanted a nice binded copy of the manual. I ended up just copying/pasting the text into word where I could make it look just as I wanted.

[I Fix 4 U]

still got the doc file, is it formatted for normal printer paper b/c i'd love to have it to print.

[shadowcat]

If you're using Windows, you download and install Cutepdf Writer and Converter (it's on the same page).

When you print (File -- Print in IE; it doesn't matter in Firefox) choose "CutePDF" and it will save the webpage as a PDF file. Now, it's nicely formatted for you. I use CutePDF all the time to print unwieldy web pages. It always comes out "printed" just as it looks on the screen.

[I Fix 4 U]

Thanx i'll go try it.

[I Fix 4 U]

It made a perfect B&W pdf of the entire guide. It was 103 pages. Wow. Ok, now is there a way to shrink the font size of everything to 80% of the original. That means like 14 would drop to something different than 23. (percentages) That way i would still be able to read it, and it would still have formatting, but save paper.
Ideas?

[Regicide]

If you are installing with the live CD, it has the handbook right on the CD-ROM. I know, it is annoying to go back and forth between every step, but it saves paper... That's what I did.

[I Fix 4 U]

Naw, i plan on actually taking this handbook around and reading. I don't want to read of the screen, as i stare at it enough :-/

[I Fix 4 U]

I ended up using the result of a converted html to pdf. It is 103 pages but easy to read. Printed the whole (not front and back). Hole punched and put in a good binder. Now it will always be at my side. thanx for that tool.

[I Fix 4 U]

Please tell me if tweaking my system like this won't blow it up or fry something.
I saw this on a major gentoo tweaking site.
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"Someone reported having a system working with no problem on an Athlon XP 2000+ with :

Athlon XP 2000+

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -O3
-pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop
-frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

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I have an amd athlon xp 2800+.
They say its expiremental and may even do something bad. I'm not gonna use those flags until i get an ok, but i sure would like to have a bunch of tweaks and optimizations. I have been reading the handbook, and having a fully bootstrapped, and custom kernel, portage, and use flags seem soooo cool.
(so inform me gentoo users )

[tsunam]

I will kick your sorry butt if you even try to do that man. Funroll-lops will break things as will fast-math. http://funroll-loops.org/ for the laugh about what you are thinking of doing.

Also LOOK at the GCC documentation about those flags...you'll find that a lot of what you have there is redundant and pointless to have.

Here is my entire make.conf on my server box a amd 2600

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
USE="nptl x acpi alsa apache2 -arts canna cjk cdr crypt divx4linux dvd dvdr -esd encode -gnome -kde gtk gtk2 ipv6 jack mmx nls nocd oggvorbis openal opengl spell -qt"
MAKEOPT="-j3"
ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0"

more cflags = less stability for neglible increase in speed. We're talking about a 2-3% increase...

[I Fix 4 U]

REEEEALY wierd site. Not understanding most of it. I'll just use the CFLAGS in the handbook. I have my own ideas for use flags. Those can't bug ur hardware right, only the cflags?
I'm changing a few things w/ use, and i have alotta things i don't want inside my kernel when i customize it. Tell me a few heads ups on what may bust the hardware, as i'm not worried about booting up and having a broken gentoo (as long as i can still boot my xp)