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On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:16:38PM -0500, Jean-S?bastien Guay wrote: |
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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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Try the test version LiveCD you'll find at |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/gentoo-alpha-1.4-test2-20040225.zip . You'll |
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still need to boot MILO from a floppy to run it, but it at least has the |
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legacy start address option which MILO needs defined. There are also |
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corresponding stage tarballs at stage[123]-alpha-20040225.tar.bz2 in the |
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same directory. |
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> > In general, you will not be able to boot from a Gentoo LiveCD directly |
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> > with ARC/AlphaBIOS. You'll have to use MILO from a floppy. I don't |
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> > believe it's 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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If your Debian installation is running a 2.4 kernel, that will work fine. |
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Otherwise, you need to build MILO on a floppy for your platform, boot it |
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from ARC, then use the MILO command line to boot the kernel off the CD. Look |
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at the /etc/aboot.conf file on the CD for the options you need to pass to |
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the kernel. It's been long enough since I've booted with MILO that I can't |
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be a lot more specific than that. |
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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 good |
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> > enoguh to mark everything I installed and am running as stable in |
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> > response 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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The command you use to install a package on Gentoo is "emerge <package>". By |
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default, unless you've altered the /etc/make.conf file as the install doc |
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mentions, you'll only install those versions of packages, and those |
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packages, that are marked as stable. Unstable or untested packages are |
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marked with a leading ~ on the name of the architecture. Adding |
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"ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha'" (without the "") at the beginning of the command |
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passes the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS environment variable to the emerge program, and |
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setting that value to ~alpha tells emerge to consider unstable versions of |
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the packages to be installed when deciding what to install. |
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