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Hello everyone! |
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I installed before 2 days the 1.4-rc1 version (from the UT2003 CD) using an |
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ADSL connection and I would like to suggest some improvements and corrections |
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to the installation instructions. Before that, I would like to say THANK YOU |
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for this great distribution. Keep the good job. After testing the last years |
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a lot of different dists, I think that this time I found what I was looking |
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for. |
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I describe my suggestions under the title of the corresponding sections. |
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2.Booting |
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I use a german keyboard (I am a Greek living in Germany :-)) and I was not |
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prompted to choose a keyboard layout after I logged in as described in this |
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section. This can be a VERY difficult situation for some people and certainly |
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a very bad first impression. |
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5. Configure installation networking |
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The instructions about the ADSL subscribers are a little bit confusing. There |
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is only a note which refers to another document. I think that this reference |
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make thinks complicated and should be removed. At this point you have to do |
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only "adsl-setup" and then "adsl-start" (net-setup eth0 was not needed in my |
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case). Therefore I suggest to remove this note and add a subsection for the |
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ADSL configuration using the following listing: |
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# adsl-setup |
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# adsl-start |
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14. Final steps: kernel and system logger |
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Many things here. |
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a) I decided initially to use the gentoo-sources. But when I was configuring |
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the kernel using "make menuconfig" I could not locate the XFS module (I |
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choosed the XFS filesystem for my root partition in the previous steps). You |
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should have a big warning here in which sources is available the XFS. Finally |
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I used the XFS sources of course. |
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b) The notes and warnings must be BEFORE the code listings. Many people (like |
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me ;-)) are not so patient and execute the listsings before reading all the |
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paragraph. |
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c) I realized later (after booting) that my adsl connection was not working. |
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I suspected that probably I forgot something when I was compiling the kernel. |
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I booted with CD again, brought up the ADSL connection and made an lsmod to |
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see which modules are loaded. I realized that the problem was that when |
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compiling the kernel I did not included the "PPP support for async ports" |
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(ppp_async) and "PPP support for sync tty ports" (ppp_synctty). Both are |
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needed (and the pppoe of course) |
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Some final notes about the "emerge" now. |
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1. It is not very clear in the current man page of the emerge (and the portage |
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howto) how do you rebuild already installed packages after, for example, you |
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changes the USE options in the make.conf. After asking for help in the |
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#gentoo channel, they told me to use the -e or --emptytree option. I think |
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that --emptytree is not the most appropriate name for this thing (That's the |
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reason I missed it in the first place). You should provide an --rebuild alias |
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too. |
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2. What is the best way to uninstall packages ensuring that you do not break |
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depedencies? Please describe it in a clean way in the man page and the |
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portage howto. I am not sure about the answer yet :-( |
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I hope you will find useful my suggestions |
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Have a nice time!! |
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Andreas Karafyllis |
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PS: I found a bug also in the licq package but I will use the bugzilla for |
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this... |