From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MAszY-00039E-RP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 21:54:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C227E02D2; Sun, 31 May 2009 21:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A143E02D2 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 21:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so6758108ewy.34 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 14:54:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=SKC+H5a4UhnesDY3Jef94nXcgBA6Kpglb8dtxQxRYbg=; b=WA1tLNhN5Sq9MStx/DYwVhDLVFjwsMSVA4B/MHemqn5mxEIyk1CWgMVzdJm6hqBxbF ZinND5YxpsBUKT7oCxRxjiNKcFD5KiUROxinWyb9jk/074QlVdanq3bb1vzR1FSWyFL2 OkjZF13AfQQW51YZprrrx48X9/WlgxncXGbpw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=t2WzeUJ3IgI5aZNvQgaKfxe/LUQZUNFJhyXdS1IWujW/HZlHF/6jwGx6HA6POzvsj7 tyMorPO0qbDBZtxLZ40EnQ+rgTUzUPL2v+J6MHdpVxPNiE8YXRu4XHqdM0+8RwKZ/lap uUXUy/kTpSzbOdg4h9WTRgAUnsgIIFBCf4Cgs= Received: by 10.210.88.3 with SMTP id l3mr3174104ebb.75.1243806894613; Sun, 31 May 2009 14:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm7899675ewy.90.2009.05.31.14.54.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 May 2009 14:54:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:54:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.29.4r4; KDE/4.2.87; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905312354.49044.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9f161b50-c968-4c91-9b47-ce4fae4018b4 X-Archives-Hash: d0b2cf776fb46c1abd92790d0dd9c1bf On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I was intending to use the 2008.0 live-install CD as a chroot platform > on a 900A EEE. Gentoo refers to the 2008.0 series as 'deprecated'. For > good reason: there's no ppp, no atheros wifi or eth0 support, BUT it > has lvm2 which I need. This makes it much more difficult, since I > cannot even connect to the PC let alone dial out or connect > wirelessly. > > Can somebody recommend an alternative, preferably non-debian; I have > had no success with several versions of that particular OS. Support > for my wireless hardware is included but attempts to connect always > lead to IIRC "no persistent database" errors, even on completely > insecure networks. > > Maxim. systemrescuecd as bonus: it is gentoo based.