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Hello... |
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I did my first non-vmware (aka on real hardware) install of Gentoo and was |
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wondering about the following: |
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- If DMA is going to be on by default in the kernel would it be possible to |
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include hdparm on the cd image so people with harddrives, etc that have |
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issues with DMA can turn it off after the cd boots? I had to create a 10mb |
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partition and untar the hdparm package because the HD would freak out with |
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DMA turned on under lightload. (Yes I know, old cheap harddrive) |
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- Where are the kernel messages displayed once the cd has booted? I checked |
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all the vt's and failed to see any of the DMA related kernel messages, |
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etc... would it be possible to redirect these messages to a VC to people |
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could use it for troubleshooting? |
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- On the cd image there are symlinks for zcat, gunzip, etc but no symlinks |
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for bzcat, bzunip2, etc |
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- Wget doesn't seem to be in the sys tarball... not a big problem but I was |
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just wondering if it was an oversight |
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- The dhcp package is missing the needed directory /var/state/dhcp... the |
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directory should be created empty so dhclient can place the dhcp lease info, |
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etc in it |
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- The default dhcp package configuation points to various config files as |
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being under /etc, not /etc/dhcp |
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- The default kernel lacks either CONFIG_PACKET or CONFIG_FILTER which is |
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needed for dhclient. I compiled a kernel myself and it works now but is |
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there any reason why one of those options is not compiled into the default |
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kernel? |
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- If you do a "make install" in the kernel source tree thats part of the |
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kernel source package, the makefile tries to play with /etc/lilo.conf (which |
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doesn't exist) and places the kernel image in the / (root) directory instead |
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of under /boot. Also I don't see a System.map anywhere. Is it still needed |
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for lsof on Linux w/ 2.4.x? |
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- I had to do some voodoo to get the most recent version of portage to work. |
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I did a ebuild merge on the most recent version, unmerged it, untar'd the |
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old version back, then remerged the most recent version and it started |
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working while after the original merge it was busted... go figure.... |
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I have the box up and running with DHCP... I'm going to make a custom |
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version of the eth network template for DHCP and will probably submit it to |
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the list for the mailing list archive, etc. |
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Thanks for all your help so far... |
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Bruce A. Locke |
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blocke@××××××.org |