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Hello Jay, |
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> Which LiveCD? |
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The Gentoo-alpha LiveCD, as found at <any gentoo |
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mirror>/experimental/alpha/livecd/ |
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> In general, you will not be able to boot from a Gentoo LiveCD directly |
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with |
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> ARC/AlphaBIOS. You'll have to use MILO from a floppy. I don't believe |
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it's |
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> possible to make a CD bootable for both SRM and ARC. |
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Ok, that's what I tought from my experience with Debian. So what is the |
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preferred installation method then? Start from a separate partition of |
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my existing Debian installation? |
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> I didn't have any problems compiling stuff when I brought up my |
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Gentoo/Alpha |
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> box a month or so ago. |
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That's good news. |
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> I did have to do |
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> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha' emerge <package> |
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> several times, but I won't have to do that again, because Aron was |
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good |
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> enoguh to mark everything I installed and am running as stable in |
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response |
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> to my bug reports. :-) |
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Err, what does that mean? Sorry for being a neophyte, but |
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"ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha' emerge <package>" doesn't mean anything to |
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me... :-) |
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J-S |
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Jean-Sébastien Guay jean_seb@×××××××××.ca |
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http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ |
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