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>I don't think its your partitions because you partition and format them |
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>during |
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> the installation process... so you should get to a prompt with no |
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> partitions. |
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> The Gentoo installer - for me - has been quite robust whereas Ubuntu has |
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> been |
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> a constant pain with the install crashing part way through and thats with |
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> 5.10 and 6.04 and on various computers. |
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to totally eliminate formatting as problem: disconnect hard drive and boot |
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the live cd; bios will probably tell you no hard drive but should offer a |
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continue option like "Press F1". BTW power off while |
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disconnecting/connecting. |
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> You get the AMD64 install didn't you? there is also an IA64 (Intel Arch) |
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> which |
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> is a bit confusing. |
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> Kevin. |
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> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:59, Iain McKee wrote: |
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>>Okay so I probably shouldn't be using gentoo, since I have minimal linux |
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>>experience (yellowdog and ubuntu), but there is only one way to learn |
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>>right. |
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>>I recently bought a machine with an amd64 3400+ processor. |
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>>I downloaded the amd64 install, burned it to CD and verified that it was |
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>>complete and working. I wanted to keep windows, so I used partition magic |
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>>8 |
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>>to create the linux partitions, then rebooted with the gentoo install CD. |
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>>But now when initially boot, the CD hangs at 68%...in verbose mode, it |
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>>looks |
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>>as though it is sticking when checking my processor. |
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>> any idea how to figure out what I have done wrong? The partitioning |
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>> should |
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>>be fine, but I am starting to wonder since no distros will work. I can't |
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>>even get the live installer to finish the hardware verification and that |
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>>worries me. |
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>>The only boot disk i have for windows is not a restore, but a bare minimum |
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>>XP install. I would rather not format completely |
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>>Sorry for being such a newbie, any help is appreciated!!! |
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>>BTW, I did try booting with a couple of other linux install discs. They |
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>>were |
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>>x86 and did not work. I'm not sure if this is because of what I messed up |
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>>or |
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>>if it is because they are x86. |
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>>ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!! |
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