Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install

"Jerry A!" wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:49:40PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> :
> : I have an Compaq Armada laptop here with a defect display, maybe I can
> : use it with an external monitor
> : to test gentoo agains it and build a pcmcia-utils package.
> :
> : Jerry if you have problems with the kernel, you can build your own
> : during installation, it's documented in the
> : install guide.
>
> I can't get that far.  The install kernel chokes and doesn't correctly
> probe /dev/hdc, so I never finish booting.

You mean you can't boot from the cd?
If you can boot from a floppy and still be able to access your cdrom on
your laptop, you can
make yourself a bootfloppy from the image on the cd and replace the
kernel on that floppy.

>
> : > I understand.  Two things.  First, I'm worried that I may not get
> : > another two/three day break which I can spend reconfiguring this machine
> : > for a while.  Second, I'm impatient.  8)
> :
> : I can build you a current sys.tbz2 today if that helps.
>
> And then I can just slap this over a rc3 install?

You can try it, but please backup before.

I would absolutely
> appreciate it if you could do that.  Hey, can you save me the effort and
> "-mcpu=i686 -march=i686" that for me?  8)

Yes I'll use that flags. It will be a i686-pc-linux-gnu sys with
"-mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -O2" options.
Tell me what special kernel options you need to boot on your laptop.

achim~

>
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