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Hi, |
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:35:36AM +0200, Daniele Florio wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> > Should I be booting with the default G4? |
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> Yes, the G3 kernel is not avaiable on the 2004.0 universal. I've |
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> installed Gentoo on my G3 800 iBook and everything was ok. |
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=> There is a fixed ISO offering a working G3 select choice on |
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http://www.metadistribution.org/gentoo/2004.0/ . |
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But with the ISO on most mirrors the G4 choice is to be used as |
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there is a small typo with thee G3 choice. |
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> > When I try running /sbin/ifconfig it only shows "lo" configuration. |
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> > I was unable to find "net-setup" referenced in the on-line manual. |
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> You have to load the module "sungem" with 'modprobe sungem'. After that |
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> you should be able to see eth0 with ifconfig. |
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=> Yes. I was too surprised to find out that there is no net-setup. |
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Maybe this command works only for some architectures (* can the |
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manual be fixed accordingly ? *) |
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I've managed to install Gentoo on an external firewire disk |
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plugged to my ibook 700Mhz 2001 late ed. The only thing |
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missing is to make yaboot load my kernel. |
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See : |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=116380&start=25 |
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I would appreciate in making it work - I plan to contribute |
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to Gentoo if I can run it :-) |
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Regards, |
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SL/ |
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