Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 07:21:53
Message-Id: 20010406102230.A14246@kabbu.reston.redhat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install by AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:49:40PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
2 :
3 : I have an Compaq Armada laptop here with a defect display, maybe I can
4 : use it with an external monitor
5 : to test gentoo agains it and build a pcmcia-utils package.
6 :
7 : Jerry if you have problems with the kernel, you can build your own
8 : during installation, it's documented in the
9 : install guide.
10
11 I can't get that far. The install kernel chokes and doesn't correctly
12 probe /dev/hdc, so I never finish booting.
13
14 : > I understand. Two things. First, I'm worried that I may not get
15 : > another two/three day break which I can spend reconfiguring this machine
16 : > for a while. Second, I'm impatient. 8)
17 :
18 : I can build you a current sys.tbz2 today if that helps.
19
20 And then I can just slap this over a rc3 install? I would absolutely
21 appreciate it if you could do that. Hey, can you save me the effort and
22 "-mcpu=i686 -march=i686" that for me? 8)
23
24 --Jerry
25
26 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
27 phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
28 email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
29 || than that!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)