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Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel |
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machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its |
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a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I |
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thought that on such powerful beast, Gentoo will be a good choice, |
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things will compile fast enough. I am stuck with a "The setup program |
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seems to have failed." error during installation, so I'll tell you |
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exactly what I dit. |
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OK, so what I did was: |
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wget http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/amd64/ |
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Then, this machine doesn't have, nor will ever have any hard drives, nor |
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CD/DVD/any-moving-media drives, the only things that I want to ever |
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attach to it are USB flash pendrives and the Ethernet cable. So I bought |
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one 1 GB USB pendrive, and two 2 GB USB pendrives to play with, and with |
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the 1 GB pendrive I followed these intructions: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml |
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and that worked well, I have this bootable USB stick with Gentoo image |
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now. After that boots and I get the Gnome desktop, I switch to text |
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console, I insert one of the 2 GB pendrives into another USB slot, and |
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the screen tells me to type "installer", so I do it. |
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I choose "standard" and "Internet enabled" and then he asks me "Which |
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drive would you like to partition?" and shows me /dev/sda and /dev/sdb |
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to choose from, where /dev/sda is my 1 GB boot stick, and /dev/sdb is my |
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empty 2 GB stick. So I choose /dev/sdb, and then the program quits |
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printing as its last words this not-very-useful message: |
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"The setup program seems to have failed." |
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So I am stuck here, what to do? |
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P.S. This machine has 2 GB RAM, and I plan to buy another 2 GB or 4 GB |
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more, and then install Gentoo in such a way that the USB pendrive would |
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only be needed during bootup, i.e. that a compressed ramfs image would |
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be on the stick, and once it extracts into initramfs or something like |
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that, it could be removed, and whole system will run from RAM, ramfs, |
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XiP (execute in place) - that's what I want to do. But right now I can't |
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even do a basic install, so some help would be great. |
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Miernik |
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http://miernik.name/ |
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