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Hi |
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I just installed gentoo. And thought I share my thouts while there is some |
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=) |
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The installation was rather painfull as I have no cd in my laptop. So I |
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figured I just rip the kernel from the cd and use the rescue.gz as initrd |
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from my existing grub. |
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Nope it didn't work, for some reason the computer rebooted as soon as grub |
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had read the kernel from the hd (that is befor executing it)... |
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Might be some mistake from my side though... |
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What I did was using some old boot/root disks from earlier Gentoo and used |
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as install disks... those had problem with the pcmcia scripts and missed the |
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pcnet_cs module... |
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Anyway, I saw a thread on gentoo-user about some strange mountings. I had |
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similar problems, it appears that when I mount a dev more the one time mount |
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fallsback to mount it as a devfs filesystem... |
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like |
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/dev/hda3 mounted on /mnt/tmp ext2 |
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/dev/hda3 mounted on /mnt/gentoo/boot devfs |
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possibly a bug in the included mount? |
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another problem (might just be the disk set I used ...) I created a 200M |
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partition on /dev/hda1 and when i run mkswap on it it just uses 48M |
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(happens to be RAM/2 in my case). |
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Other than that it was a rather painless install (except from som |
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psycological stress from hours of compiling =) (three days acctually)). |
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Well som thoughts... a script similar to that the kernel uses for menuconfig |
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would be nice to have as a frontend for installing everything, any work in |
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progress? |
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One of the reasons for me turning to Gentoo was to let me scale the dist to |
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my needs. This failed utterly in the primary install "emerge system". I have |
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no use for all locales for example... couldn't a script just ask me what |
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locale I wanted? |
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I was untaring the kernel when a thought hit me, if I just had enought files |
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to run the menuconfig and then download kernelsources based on .config... |
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Over all take the gentoo design to the extreem and setup the entire system |
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before download/compile/install so that ONLY needed files got downloaded... |
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just a thought. |
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well well based on what I've said what can I do to help? |
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/John Nilsson |
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