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Please excuse the bizarre Subject (grin) ! |
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I've named my new toy (ASUS 1005HA) Horace after the great Roman poet |
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-- my desktop machine is Aristotle or rather his 3rd New Body (ANB3) -- |
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& it has come alive, booting from its HDD at the 2nd try |
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after I emerged & configured Kernel 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 + Lilo |
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without any use of the Internet. I used the Minimal Install on a USB stick, |
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grabbed the latest Portage Snapshot & copied the distfiles from ANB3. |
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Otherwise, I followed the basics of the standard install procedure |
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& used a kernel config file I found via Google to get started |
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(it included a few of the more obscure device drivers which are needed); |
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it panicked & I then checked it carefully vs the config file from ANB3 |
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(the same kernel version, of course), making a number of changes. |
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2nd time, it booted ok & I got a login prompt. I still needed to go back |
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with the USB stick & delete the root password '*' to actually login. |
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Now I have to get Ethernet working & then start building the real system. |
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To be shown the recommended driver 'atl1c', you have to say 'Y' |
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to the 'experimental code' option right at the beginning of 'menuconfig': |
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it is still considered alpha by the kernel devs. Of course, |
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I still don't know whether Ethernet will actually work as advertised, |
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but the really big hurdle has been jumped over. |
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Thanks to all those who advised & encouraged (big smile). |
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SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb |
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ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto |
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