I've written this piece as sort of an addendum to the regular installation procedures given on the Gentoo website. Some people have asked me questions about Gentoo, so I've decided to write down some ...

If you can ping, you are good to go. Don't worry about icmp_seq. Gentoo rocks btw...currently running 1.4RC2 on my dual XP1800 box and it flies. KDE3.1 took a while to compile though.