Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation Gotchas

"Bruce A. Locke" wrote:

> Hello...
>
> I did my first non-vmware (aka on real hardware) install of Gentoo and was
> wondering about the following:
>
> - If DMA is going to be on by default in the kernel would it be possible to
> include hdparm on the cd image so people with harddrives, etc that have
> issues with DMA can turn it off after the cd boots?  I had to create a 10mb
> partition and untar the hdparm package because the HD would freak out with
> DMA turned on under lightload. (Yes I know, old cheap harddrive)

Ok hdparam will be there.

>
>
> - Where are the kernel messages displayed once the cd has booted?  I checked
> all the vt's and failed to see any of the DMA related kernel messages,
> etc... would it be possible to redirect these messages to a VC to people
> could use it for troubleshooting?

Good idea next time we will use vc/12 for kernel outputs instead of suppressing
them.

>
>
> - On the cd image there are symlinks for zcat, gunzip, etc but no symlinks
> for bzcat, bzunip2, etc

zcat gunzip symlinks are required for loadkeys bzcat bzunzip2 not. That's why
they are there /not there.
But symlinks do not hurt so they will be on the next boot-image.

>
>
> - Wget doesn't seem to be in the sys tarball...  not a big problem but I was
> just wondering if it was an oversight

Normaly we included some other non sys utilities in the sys-tarball. We did not
do it in this case.
Next time will have different profiles.

>
>
> - The dhcp package is missing the needed directory /var/state/dhcp... the
> directory should be created empty so dhclient can place the dhcp lease info,
> etc in it
>
> - The default dhcp package configuation points to various config files as
> being under /etc, not /etc/dhcp
>
> - The default kernel lacks either CONFIG_PACKET or CONFIG_FILTER which is
> needed for dhclient.  I compiled a kernel myself and it works now but is
> there any reason why one of those options is not compiled into the default
> kernel?

Simply because dhcp was not used by anyone before. I tested it last week and
found that problems too.

>
>
> - If you do a "make install" in the kernel source tree thats part of the
> kernel source package, the makefile tries to play with /etc/lilo.conf (which
> doesn't exist) and places the kernel image in the / (root) directory instead
> of under /boot.  Also I don't see a System.map anywhere.  Is it still needed
> for lsof on Linux w/ 2.4.x?
>

Well it'r rc and it's pre. :-)
There was a bug in the kernel-package. The make install thought to be run in
the alsa subdir runs in
the kernel dir. If ou run make install in /usr/src/linux it tries to update
lilo.

>
> - I had to do some voodoo to get the most recent version of portage to work.
> I did a ebuild merge on the most recent version, unmerged it, untar'd the
> old version back, then remerged the most recent version and it started
> working while after the original merge it was busted... go figure....
>
> I have the box up and running with DHCP... I'm going to make a custom
> version of the eth network template for DHCP and will probably submit it to
> the list for the mailing list archive, etc.
>
> Thanks for all your help so far...

Thank you for your reports.

achim~

>
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