From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wap11.infinitylimited.net (S010600045ada6712.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.22.155]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j528HMiL012834 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:17:23 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wap11.infinitylimited.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBA558E3E for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 02:17:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 62.135.88.76 ([62.135.88.76]) by www.infinitylimited.net (IMP) with HTTP for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:17:19 -0600 Message-ID: <1117700239.429ec08f6b42d@www.infinitylimited.net> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 02:17:19 -0600 From: jake@infinitylimited.net To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Install problems References: <4295BB36.8080706@tiscali.co.uk> <4295DF24.6040706@gmail.com> <4295EEF7.409@tiscali.co.uk> <4295F4E6.2070104@tiscali.co.uk> <1387.69.134.170.70.1117478934.squirrel@69.134.170.70> <429C2D1C.3090404@tiscali.co.uk> <429E1806.6040102@tiscali.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 62.135.88.76 X-Archives-Salt: 8ce3b56a-fd91-42f4-9fb7-fe348dd63596 X-Archives-Hash: e89d5de4ef7497e0f7abf1006fac85b6 Quoting Ryan Viljoen : > If you can spare some space than I think the best way to do this would > be to install Gentoo from your existing Fedora install as Josh > suggested. Than use lshw, lspci and lsusb to manually configure your > own kernel to your hardware requirements without having to worry about > auto detection. > > An interesting point though, when install gentoo on my friends > notebook we had a similar problem of the install CD hanging and not > getting passed a point (during hardware detection) not matter how long > we left it. Luckily I had the 2004.1, 2004.3 and 2005.0 install cd's. > The 2004.1 install CD worked perfectly getting through all the > hardware detection. Once installed an emerge sync and a change in > profile and his install was sorted. So I dont know if you tried > different versions of the gentoo install cd but if not maybe track > down an older on? (2004.1 possibly). > This is a good point - the live CD does some fairly complicated things dueing boot. It has a pretty massiv initrd image that it loads to do module loading and stuff, and the latest one simply might not be compatible with your hardware. Submit a bug for it, and then try an older liveCD. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list