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@ 2001-11-18  1:07 John Nilsson
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From: John Nilsson @ 2001-11-18  1:07 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi

I just installed gentoo. And thought I share my thouts while there is some 
=)

The installation was rather painfull as I have no cd in my laptop. So I 
figured I just rip the kernel from the cd and use the rescue.gz as initrd 
from my existing grub.
Nope it didn't work, for some reason the computer rebooted as soon as grub 
had read the kernel from the hd (that is befor executing it)...
Might be some mistake from my side though...
What I did was using some old boot/root disks from earlier Gentoo and used 
as install disks... those had problem with the pcmcia scripts and missed the 
pcnet_cs module...
Anyway, I saw a thread on gentoo-user about some strange mountings. I had 
similar problems, it appears that when I mount a dev more the one time mount 
fallsback to mount it as a devfs filesystem...
like
/dev/hda3 mounted on /mnt/tmp ext2
/dev/hda3 mounted on /mnt/gentoo/boot devfs
possibly a bug in the included mount?

another problem (might just be the disk set I used ...) I created a 200M 
partition on /dev/hda1 and when i run mkswap on it it just uses 48M
(happens to be RAM/2 in my case).

Other than that it was a rather painless install (except from som 
psycological stress from hours of compiling =) (three days acctually)).

Well som thoughts... a script similar to that the kernel uses for menuconfig 
would be nice to have as a frontend for installing everything, any work in 
progress?

One of the reasons for me turning to Gentoo was to let me scale the dist to 
my needs. This failed utterly in the primary install "emerge system". I have 
no use for all locales for example... couldn't a script just ask me what 
locale I wanted?

I was untaring the kernel when a thought hit me, if I just had enought files 
to run the menuconfig and then download kernelsources based on .config...
Over all take the gentoo design to the extreem and setup the entire system 
before download/compile/install so that ONLY needed files got downloaded... 
just a thought.

well well based on what I've said what can I do to help?

/John Nilsson

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