OK, so I chickened out and downloaded some 'pre-built' Pentium III ISOs for Gentoo, re-formatted drives and started again. This time I got a useable system up and running (PCMCIA WiFi card automatically detected and configured), then I stole this XF86Config file and had X up and running. Built Gnome (by entering 'USE="bindist" emerge -k gnome' - easy) and got it to boot into that by enabling the GDM service on boot. Enabling services is done through the 'rc-update' command, which is way easier than all the messing around with run levels on Red Hat, but I also miss all those handy graphical setup utilities that you get by default in RH.


Now to install applications, which is a bit on the slow side. Managed to get ALSA installed and working, but haven't got XMMS to install yet, also got GIMP installed but Open Office, after spending about 12 hours compiling, crapped out with an error. Having another go with Open Office now (emerge --resume), but I suspect I won't know if it works for a few hours yet. Will have to have another go with XMMS because liteamp doesn't seem to stable to me (managed to crash it by pressing play when there wasn't an item in the playlist).