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 1MAquX-0006rI-7x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 19:41:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F269E02E8; Sun, 31 May 2009 19:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE482E02E8 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 19:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.30] (dslb-188-098-074-032.pools.arcor-ip.net [188.98.74.32]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKv5w-1MAquV07M3-0001qc; Sun, 31 May 2009 21:41:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4A22DD6E.5030700@konstantinhansen.de> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 21:41:34 +0200 From: KH User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090527) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+numKiMwv2+lPaVhMC+TioAQjgLl1WaGT0rap Rgt0WADfNxZlhgFkSZI62jbsWDw148nKgUA/9Lgrm3Boj3jJXK ItgJJN2XG/y/cygmh1ZWQ== X-Archives-Salt: 700065b6-3cf0-415d-8b6b-a1b6d5c7e877 X-Archives-Hash: 5d4239a69f21f305c8ff956537962ff3 Maxim Wexler schrieb: > 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. > Hi Maxim, I know there is a gentoo auto build cd but I don't know if it supports your hardware as you need it. It might be worth a try. http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/ kh