[gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Seemant Kulleen]

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Hi All,

If people are willing to test an install on this (for AthlonXP) that
would be much appreciated.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/livecd-athlon-xp-1.4-20030730-cd1.iso


Follow the normal instructions and unpack stage 3.  Then:

unpack /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-xyz.tar.bz2 to /mnt/gentoo/usr
copy /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/
(create dir)
copy /mnt/cdrom/packages/* (-a) to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/
then to install binaries, do a USE="bindist" emerge -K xfree

and particularly, genkernel needs testing:
USE="bindist" emerge -K genkernel

and then just emerge some kernel, and run genkernel

Thanks,




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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 05:27, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> If people are willing to test an install on this (for AthlonXP) that
> would be much appreciated.
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/livecd-athlon-xp-1.4-20030730-cd1.iso

Just a quick question.  Does the kernel on the CD support SMP?  The
Athlon XP and Athlon MP are the same chip, instruction-wise.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Daniel Robbins]

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:41:16AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 05:27, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > If people are willing to test an install on this (for AthlonXP) that
> > would be much appreciated.
> > 
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~drobbins/livecd-athlon-xp-1.4-20030730-cd1.iso
> 
> Just a quick question.  Does the kernel on the CD support SMP?  The
> Athlon XP and Athlon MP are the same chip, instruction-wise.

You can type "smp" at the boot prompt to boot a SMP kernel. This CD
is a 1.4_final test.

Best Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[François Dupoux]

Hi all,

I just want to notice there is an ebuild for an important driver required for 
adsl modems based on an eagle chipset.

Adding this driver to the Gentoo LiveCd-1.4 would allow many users to connect 
to internet, and perform the installation from sources:
http://fdupoux.free.fr/gentoo/eagle-driver-1.0.4.tar.gz

Hope it helps.

Thanks


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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Stewart Honsberger]

Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> If people are willing to test an install on this (for AthlonXP) that
> would be much appreciated.
[...]
> and then just emerge some kernel, and run genkernel

Speaking of LiveCDs ...

I've recently aquired an "OldWorld" Mac (PowerPC 7500/100 with a G3 250 
upgrade installed), and have upgraded the hard drive from a 700 to a 2 
and 4GB, and would very much like to install Gentoo on the 4. However, 
it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI 
support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to 
diagnose the problem.

Unfortunately I've only got 128MB of RAM, so there's not really enough 
space to roll my own kernel, and I can't access any of my drives to 
create any temp space (no ATA controllers are present), and since the 
Gentoo 1.2 images appear to have been removed from all mirrors I find 
myself at somewhat of a loss. :/

I'm currently exploring other options (SuSE, Tom's Rootboot, Knoppix, 
etc.) but would rather see Gentoo improved than rely on third party 
support. If there's anything I can do to help, any input I can provide, 
or anything I can test, please don't hesitate to drop me a line at 
blkdeath@g.o!

Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[C. Brewer]

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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 00:04:18 -0400
Stewart Honsberger <blkdeath@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Speaking of LiveCDs ...
> 
> I've recently aquired an "OldWorld" Mac (PowerPC 7500/100 with a G3 250 
> upgrade installed), and have upgraded the hard drive from a 700 to a 2 
> and 4GB, and would very much like to install Gentoo on the 4. However, 
> it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI 
> support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to 
> diagnose the problem.

What about pulling the config from the disk and rolling one with the scsi as
modules? Popping the livecd onto a rewritable should allow for
substitution of the kernel and mods. Or even worse case, use one of your
other boxes to cross-compile a kernel if ya really had to?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Eric Sammer]

Stewart Honsberger wrote:
<snip>
> However, 
> it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI 
> support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to 
> diagnose the problem.
<snip>

I ran into the same issue with the hardware: G3 (B/W) 400mhz, Adaptec 
2940 SCSI controller, Seagate Baracuda 10000rpm UW 18GB. The issue was 
with the 1.4 "final" cd that was recently released. Again, with only 
128M of ram and little time, I didn't want to try and build a kernel. I 
found that the RC6 version of the ppc livecd *does* have all the popular 
SCSI modules you'd expect. That said, the RC6 cd has a million other 
"issues" that were cleared up by 1.4 final. If you're comfortable fixing 
some files, it will get you going in the interim.

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

The ppc kernel scsi stuff has been an enourmeous pita to me when building
the livecds. When some drivers are enabled, the kernel seems to hang on
non-scsi machines. The help information provided by make menuconfig also
most of the time doesn't mention what drivers work on ppc, and what
drivers don't.

I know my quest for the perfect kernel .config is not over yet. Expect a
lot of updated livecds with mostly updated kernels before I start
improving it feature-wise. Feel free to send me your .config or enlighten
me on what scsi stuff needs to be enabled on ppc.

Pieter

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Eric Sammer wrote:

> Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> <snip>
> > However,
> > it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI
> > support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to
> > diagnose the problem.
> <snip>
>
> I ran into the same issue with the hardware: G3 (B/W) 400mhz, Adaptec
> 2940 SCSI controller, Seagate Baracuda 10000rpm UW 18GB. The issue was
> with the 1.4 "final" cd that was recently released. Again, with only
> 128M of ram and little time, I didn't want to try and build a kernel. I
> found that the RC6 version of the ppc livecd *does* have all the popular
> SCSI modules you'd expect. That said, the RC6 cd has a million other
> "issues" that were cleared up by 1.4 final. If you're comfortable fixing
> some files, it will get you going in the interim.
>
> HTH.
> --
> Eric Sammer
> eric@ineoconcepts.com
> http://www.ineoconcepts.com
>
>
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>


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Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 00:04, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> I've recently aquired an "OldWorld" Mac (PowerPC 7500/100 with a G3 250 
> upgrade installed), and have upgraded the hard drive from a 700 to a 2 
> and 4GB, and would very much like to install Gentoo on the 4. However, 
> it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI 
> support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to 
> diagnose the problem.

Booting with "gentoo doscsi" didn't load the proper modules?

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[gentoo-dev] Re: experimental liveCD

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

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On 08/08/03 09:18 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 00:04, Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> > I've recently aquired an "OldWorld" Mac (PowerPC 7500/100 with a G3 250 
> > upgrade installed), and have upgraded the hard drive from a 700 to a 2 
> > and 4GB, and would very much like to install Gentoo on the 4. However, 
> > it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI 
> > support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to 
> > diagnose the problem.
> 
> Booting with "gentoo doscsi" didn't load the proper modules?

The gentoo ppc livecd does not use the same boot options as the x86 one.
The ppc 1.4_final livecd kernel .config against ppc-sources-2.4.21-r2 can 
be found here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/kernel/2.4.21-r2.conf

Pieter

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: experimental liveCD

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 09:22, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> The gentoo ppc livecd does not use the same boot options as the x86 one.
> The ppc 1.4_final livecd kernel .config against ppc-sources-2.4.21-r2 can 
> be found here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/kernel/2.4.21-r2.conf

My bad...

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