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There are several ways to install Gentoo on a fresh PCG-C1VFK (or similar):

• Borrow an expensive Vaio CD-ROM drive and use a Gentoo CD, following the ordinary x86 installation guide. You'll need to pass the magic incantation ide2=0x180,0x386 to the kernel on booting to allow it to see the drive after it boots into Gentoo (this is the route I took, since the department I work in owns such a beast).
• Borrow a USB floppy drive & find a small linux distribution that fits on an ordinary 1.44 megabyte floppy disk (the USB drives won't work with strange things like tomsrtbt which fits more on a disk than that) and unpack the tarballs and chroot that way (follow the alternative installation guide for Gentoo).
• Install some other GNU/Linux distro that does the filesystem-in-a-file approach (the same way BeOS Personal Edition does it) then follow the alt installation guide.

Gentoo is particularly handy as you compile things natively, which is probably a good idea on a strange processor like the Crusoe.

I have sonypi, ACPI, the camera and memorystick working happily. I'm still looking at getting Software Suspend and bluetooth to work properly.