[gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

[gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

[Fabio]

There is no way to start the live cd.. i also write in a lot of forum,
and so on, but nothing seems to work..
what should i do?
thanks
Fabio

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

[Justin]

Fabio schrieb:
> There is no way to start the live cd.. i also write in a lot of forum,
> and so on, but nothing seems to work..
> what should i do?
> thanks
> Fabio
>


Thats a problem of the live CD on several video cards!

But you can still do the gentoo way of installing the OS and start with
an minimal CD!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

[Dale]

Justin wrote:
> Fabio schrieb:
>   
>> There is no way to start the live cd.. i also write in a lot of forum,
>> and so on, but nothing seems to work..
>> what should i do?
>> thanks
>> Fabio
>>
>>     
>
>
> Thats a problem of the live CD on several video cards!
>
> But you can still do the gentoo way of installing the OS and start with
> an minimal CD!
>   

Or use some other bootable CD like Knoppix. 

The best way to install Gentoo is the old way.  You will learn a lot
about Linux that way too.  If you just have to, you can install some
binary based OS like Mandriva on a separate drive and use it to install
from then erase Mandriva after you get everything sorted out.  The plus
to that is you can use Mandriva to search the forums when a problem
arises.  It does have web browsers too.

Just a few thoughts there.

Dale 

:-)  :-) 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

[Fabio]

Dale wrote:
>
> Or use some other bootable CD like Knoppix. 
>
> The best way to install Gentoo is the old way.  You will learn a lot
> about Linux that way too.  If you just have to, you can install some
> binary based OS like Mandriva on a separate drive and use it to install
> from then erase Mandriva after you get everything sorted out.  The plus
> to that is you can use Mandriva to search the forums when a problem
> arises.  It does have web browsers too.
>
> Just a few thoughts there.
>
> Dale 
>
> :-)  :-) 
>   
thanks Dale! I currently use ubuntu and Debian now. I try to install the 
gentoo system via  chroot from Ubuntu but was a real suicide for me..at 
the end..I don't know why it does not work.
so do you think this is the best way?
thanks!
Fabio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo didn't work with ati sapphire 2400

[Dale]

Fabio wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>>
>> Or use some other bootable CD like Knoppix.
>> The best way to install Gentoo is the old way.  You will learn a lot
>> about Linux that way too.  If you just have to, you can install some
>> binary based OS like Mandriva on a separate drive and use it to install
>> from then erase Mandriva after you get everything sorted out.  The plus
>> to that is you can use Mandriva to search the forums when a problem
>> arises.  It does have web browsers too.
>>
>> Just a few thoughts there.
>>
>> Dale
>> :-)  :-)   
> thanks Dale! I currently use ubuntu and Debian now. I try to install
> the gentoo system via  chroot from Ubuntu but was a real suicide for
> me..at the end..I don't know why it does not work.
> so do you think this is the best way?
> thanks!
> Fabio


I did my install from Mandrake once.  It worked fine for me.  I did most
of it from Konsole.  I had Mandriva on one drive and installed Gentoo on
the second drive. 

There is not really much difference between doing it booted from the
install CD or another OS.  You create your partitions, put your file
system on those, create your mount points if needed and mount the
partitions.  Untar the stage tarball, chroot in and go after it.  Once
you get to the chroot part, it should be just like the handbook.  If
your mount points are different, substitute the correct paths for your
situation.  You can just do a mkdir /mnt/gentoo on your current OS then
go from there.   That way it will be just like the handbook. 

I will say this, it took me four tries to get a successful install. 
That would be booting from the hard drive.  Took a couple more times to
get the kernel perfected.  If you run into a problem, don't start over. 
Just about anything can be fixed.  Just search the forums, come here and
ask if needed.

You should be able to install from the OS you have tho.  I have never
used Debian or Ubuntu but it should work.

After you do this a few times, you'll be like "that is so easy".  I have
never used the installer to install Gentoo with. 

That help?

Dale

:-)  :-) :-) 
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