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 1MArMH-0002P2-FV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 20:10:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76160E04E5; Sun, 31 May 2009 20:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com (mail-fx0-f219.google.com [209.85.220.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38333E04E5 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 20:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so6398977fxm.34 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 13:10:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fFw6HykSWyA8dkBQiBGA6QdP0LFN3kaEcH8vYL4MvfU=; b=gQFg0W9MLleYeKpsZgHyiCknEJK01T6C3qPtmaV4Ucv2QnofZP5b0eJtkXQaxdHkjd xjRo2jyHqIQ8qvflQVk4U66AhivJ8u+k+jaVmS3Jz7GWIpjfcY+mFAfjwb27ytn1Z0BN JlZiw8ZCko2gmBgjqqcWXm1GFaz4Fu84zoH58= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hTU1dSOuZ/Ux444LQCkxCe938gglX4ABqy3NGixg0bhNj2BadYoz9S/w5ijlLsjNYm 7Rr0D/jMBtsQKLryZhuSZmtW7PLAfogE4//UxPsK8SR486A1kflQhCL1emD5+jfGIZaL bDqSCbvUOZL1m7rkayu8J/2nBeEPrvRi68uLU= Received: by 10.86.86.2 with SMTP id j2mr5591664fgb.74.1243800615682; Sun, 31 May 2009 13:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.207? (r164h207.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm6750122fga.26.2009.05.31.13.09.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 May 2009 13:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A22E3A7.8050808@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 15:08:07 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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-Archives-Salt: c42b5374-1c58-417b-b342-be6e8f572171 X-Archives-Hash: 7c68565301178ba94adc97dd33bd9594 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. > > > Can you use a Knoppix CD to install from? I have read that it works fine but not sure if it has your drivers or not tho. Dale :-) :-)