Re: [gentoo-dev] Newbie to Linux

[Pierre-Henri Jondot]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:58:37 +0200
Anan Zeevy <Anan.Zeevy@×××××××××.il> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have bought a copy of the 1.2 Gentoo CD from ComputerHelperGuy and I
> wish to install it on my computer.
> As a newbie, instead of trying it immediately (and thus miserably failing
> and wasting my time) I'd like to know what manuals should I print to have
> handy during the installation, and what should I learn before trying to
> install Gentoo on my computer.
>
> My specs:
> Mother board: Asus A7V333 (VIA KT333)
> CPU: Athlon 1800+ (slightly overclocked)
> MEM: 1GB Transcend 333Mhz DDR
> HDD:	Primary (Master) - Maxtor 80GB
> 	Secondary (Slave) - IBM 20GB unpartitioned, unformatted (intended
> for Gentoo)
> Graphic: Matrox G400 DH 32MB
> Sound: Currently using onboard sound (C-Media 8738), switching to Hercules
> Game theater XP (Cirrus Logic CS4630) in a few days.
> 2 NICS: 3com 905b (pptp adsl), intel pro 10/100 (lan)
> CD-R (master): Plextor (PX-W401240A)
> DVD (Slave): Asus (E-616)
>
> Also, could you please tell me where can I find the instructions for
> enabling Hebrew support as in Dan Armak's screenshot ?
>
As concerning Hebrew support I can't say, but as concerns the installation,
be aware that with the gentoo 1.2 iso you won't have pptp support during the
first stages of installation.

With the help of eugenesan I've patched the gentoo 1.2 iso to add pptp
support. Couldn't test it myself as I only use pppoe but I suppose it works.

If you don't have a router, you'd rather use this iso to boot and swap cds
if you want to untar stage 2 or stage 3 (this small iso has only stage 1
binaries.)

Go there first :

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8805

Please report if it worked for you or not...
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