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Randy Barlow wrote: |
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> Howdy all! I'm new to ppc but not new to Gentoo. I just picked up an old G3 |
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> Blue and White for $20 to play around with, and I'm just starting to install |
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> Gentoo. I'm noticing that my hard drive seems to be showing up as hdc and |
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> the cdrom as hda in the install cd environment. Is this normal/ok? I can't |
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> think of any reason that it wouldn't be OK, but it does seem strange to me. |
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> Perhaps the drives are plugged into the mobo backwards? I haven't opened the |
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> box yet... |
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I just finished installing Gentoo on a Blue&White, so I can offer some |
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advice. Don't trouble yourself at first with the hardware (which bus |
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the HD is plugged in to, jumpers, etc.) Just install Gentoo to |
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/dev/hdc. Now once you boot into your kernel, more than likely the |
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devices will be ordered /dev/hda - hard drive /dev/hde - CD. So then |
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you have to chroot in again and manually edit yaboot.conf on the |
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bootstrap partition to point to /dev/hda. Also, don't forget to update |
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your /etc/fstab to reflect the fact that the hard drive is now /dev/hda. |
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Hope that helps! |
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Nathan Smith |
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ndansmith@×××××.com |
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