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It's been awhile since I played with gentoo-mips; however, the issue you are |
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running into has to do with the fact that the Gentoo-Mips livecd is not, in |
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fact, a true cd image. It is a HD image based on the Mips disc-layout |
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scheme. This is mentioned in the readme included with the image(iirc, it |
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also mentioned the build method for making the image, though not in any |
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detail), which I believe was worked out by kumba or redhatter (not sure |
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which one atm). If you really need help I suggest the #gentoo-mips channel |
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on FreeNode. Someone in there will have had experience with your Octane2 |
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machine; Me, I'm an O2 man meself... :) |
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:12 AM, sébastien bertoletto |
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<sbertoletto@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> hi, |
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> We are a group composed of four students in engineer school and we work on |
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> a project which is to design a cluster with SGI machines. We would like to |
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> install Gentoo on our machines (SGI Octane 2 MIPS) but we have many |
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> problems. Indeed, we need to modify the image disk of the live CD in order |
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> to insert some software like GCC, Mpich (because when we try to install |
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> Gentoo on the computer we have no x64 compiler on the live-cd and the |
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> installation by portage fail so it is impossible to compile the kernel)... |
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> We would like you help to understand how to mount the live cd image, it does |
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> not seems to be a standart format. Could you help us to do that ? If you are |
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> interesting to have the new live-cd we will create we will find a way to |
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> transmit it to you. |
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> Yours sincerly, |
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