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Modified: hb-install-amd64-medium.xml |
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Updated amd64-medium.xml; mostly identical to x86 now. |
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Revision Changes Path |
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1.2 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml |
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file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml?rev=1.2&view=markup |
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plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain |
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml,v |
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--- hb-install-amd64-medium.xml 9 Aug 2006 16:35:14 -0000 1.1 |
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<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> |
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<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> |
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-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml,v 1.1 2006/08/09 16:35:14 fox2mike Exp $ --> |
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+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.1/hb-install-amd64-medium.xml,v 1.2 2006/08/12 21:08:23 nightmorph Exp $ --> |
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<sections> |
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<version>6.0</version> |
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-<date>2006-02-27</date> |
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+<date>2006-08-12</date> |
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<section> |
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<title>Hardware Requirements</title> |
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<p> |
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Before we start, we first list what hardware requirements you need to |
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-successfully install Gentoo on your box. |
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+successfully install Gentoo on your box using the Installer LiveCD. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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<table> |
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<tr> |
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<th>CPU</th> |
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- <ti>Any AMD64 CPU *</ti> |
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+ <ti>Any AMD64 or EM64T CPU</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<th>Memory</th> |
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- <ti>64 MB</ti> |
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+ <ti>128 MB</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<th>Diskspace</th> |
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</tr> |
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</table> |
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-<p> |
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-You should check the <uri link="http://amd64.gentoo.org">Gentoo |
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-AMD64 Project Page</uri> before proceeding. |
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-</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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</section> |
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-<!-- Copy/paste from hb-install-x86-medium.xml (with s/x86/amd64/) --> |
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+<!-- General description, propagated to other architectures as well --> |
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<!-- START --> |
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<section> |
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-<title>The Gentoo Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>The Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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Gentoo Linux can be installed using a <e>stage3</e> tarball file. |
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Such a tarball is an archive that contains a minimal environment from |
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-which you can succesfully install Gentoo Linux onto your system. |
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+which you can successfully install Gentoo Linux onto your system. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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-<title>Gentoo Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-An Installation CD is a bootable medium which contains a self-sustained Gentoo |
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+A LiveCD is a bootable medium which contains a self-sustained Gentoo |
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environment. It allows you to boot Linux from the CD. During the boot process |
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your hardware is detected and the appropriate drivers are loaded. The Gentoo |
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Installation CDs are maintained by Gentoo developers. |
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<ul> |
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<li> |
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- The Universal Installation CD contains everything you need to install |
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- Gentoo. It provides stage3 files for common architectures, source code |
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- for the extra applications you need to choose from and, of course, the |
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- installation instructions for your architecture. |
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+ The Installer LiveCD contains everything you need to install Gentoo. It |
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+ provides a graphical environment, a graphical as well as console based |
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+ installer which automatically carries out the installation for you, and of |
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+ course, the installation instructions for your architecture. |
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</li> |
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<li> |
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The Minimal Installation CD contains only a minimal environment that allows |
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</li> |
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</ul> |
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-<p> |
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-Gentoo also provides a Package CD. This is not an Installation CD but an |
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-additional resource that you can exploit during the installation of your Gentoo |
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-system. It contains prebuilt packages (also known as the GRP set) that allow |
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-you to easily and quickly install additional applications (such as |
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-OpenOffice.org, KDE, GNOME, ...) immediately after the Gentoo installation and |
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-right before you update your Portage tree. |
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-</p> |
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- |
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-<p> |
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-The use of the Package CD is covered later in this document. |
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-</p> |
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- |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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</section> |
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<!-- STOP --> |
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<section> |
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-<title>Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<subsection> |
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-<title>Downloading and Burning the Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Downloading and Burning the Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-You can download the Universal Installation CD (and, if you want to, the |
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-Packages CD as well) from one of our <uri |
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-link="/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirrors</uri>. The Installation CD is located in |
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-the <path>releases/amd64/2006.1/installcd</path> directory; |
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-the Package CD is located in the <path>releases/amd64/2006.1/packagecd</path> |
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-directory. |
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+You can download the Installer LiveCDs from one of our <uri |
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+link="/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirrors</uri>. They are located in |
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+the <path>releases/amd64/2006.1/livecd</path> directory. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Inside those directories you'll find ISO-files. Those are full CD images which |
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+Inside that directory you'll find an ISO-file. That is a full CD image which |
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you can write on a CD-R. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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-<title>Booting the Universal Installation CD</title> |
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+<title>Booting the Installer LiveCD</title> |
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<body> |
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+<impo> |
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+Read this whole subsection before continuing, as you will probably not have the |
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+opportunity to read it before doing things later. |
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+</impo> |
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+ |
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<p> |
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-Once you have burned your installation CDs, it is time to boot them. |
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-Remove all CDs from the CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. |
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-This is usually done by hitting DEL, F1 |
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-or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside the BIOS, change the boot |
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-order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard disk. This is often found |
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-under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system will just reboot from the |
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+Once you have burned your LiveCD, it is time to boot it. Remove all CDs from |
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+your CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. This is usually done by |
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+hitting DEL, F1 or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside the BIOS, change the |
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+boot order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard disk. This is often found |
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+under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system will just reboot from the |
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hard disk, ignoring the CD-ROM. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Now place the installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot. You |
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-should see a boot prompt. At this |
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-screen, you can hit Enter to begin the boot process with the default |
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-boot options, or boot the Installation CD with custom boot options by specifying |
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-a kernel followed by boot options and then hitting Enter. |
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+Now place the LiveCD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot. You should see a boot |
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+prompt. At this screen, you can hit Enter to begin the boot process with the |
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+default boot options, or boot the LiveCD with custom boot options by specifying |
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+a kernel followed by boot options and then hitting Enter. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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-Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our Installation CD. The |
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-default one is <c>gentoo</c>. Other kernels are for specific hardware needs and |
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-the <c>-nofb</c> variants which disable framebuffer. |
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+Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our LiveCD. |
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+The default one is <c>gentoo</c>. Other kernels are for specific hardware needs |
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+and the <c>-nofb</c> variants which disable framebuffer. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<ti>gentoo</ti> |
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- <ti>Default kernel with support for K8 CPUs with NUMA</ti> |
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+ <ti> |
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+ Default kernel with support for K8 CPUS (including NUMA support) and EM64T |
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+ CPUs |
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+ </ti> |
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+</tr> |
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+<tr> |
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+ <ti>memtest86</ti> |
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+ <ti>Test your local RAM for errors</ti> |
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</tr> |
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</table> |
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<p> |
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-You can also provide kernel options. They represent optional settings |
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-you can (de)activate at will. The following code listing explains all available |
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-kernel options. |
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-</p> |
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- |
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-<pre caption="Available boot options"> |
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-- agpgart loads agpgart (use if you have graphic problems,lockups) |
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-- acpi=on loads support for ACPI firmware |
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-- ide=nodma force disabling of DMA for malfunctioning IDE devices |
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-- doscsi scan for scsi devices (breaks some ethernet cards) |
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-- dopcmcia starts pcmcia service for PCMCIA cdroms |
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-- nofirewire disables firewire modules in initrd (for firewire cdroms,etc) |
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-- nokeymap disables keymap selection for non-us keyboard layouts |
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-- docache cache the entire runtime portion of cd in RAM, allows you |
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- to umount /mnt/cdrom to mount another cdrom. |
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-- nodetect causes hwsetup/kudzu and hotplug not to run |
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-- nousb disables usb module load from initrd, disables hotplug |
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-- nodhcp dhcp does not automatically start if nic detected |
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-- nohotplug disables loading hotplug service |
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-- noapic disable apic (try if having hardware problems nics,scsi,etc) |
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-- noevms2 disable loading of EVMS2 modules |
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-- nolvm2 disable loading of LVM2 modules |
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-- hdx=stroke allows you to partition the whole harddrive even when your BIOS |
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- can't handle large harddrives |
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-- noload=module1[,module2[,...]] |
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- disable loading of specific kernel modules |
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+You can also provide kernel options. They represent optional settings you can |
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+(de)activate at will. The following list is the same as the one you receive |
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+when you press F2 through F7 at the bootscreen. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<pre caption="Options available to pass to your kernel of choice"> |
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+<comment>Hardware options:</comment> |
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+ |
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+acpi=on This loads support for ACPI and also causes the acpid daemon to |
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+ be started by the CD on boot. This is only needed if your |
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+ system requires ACPI to function properly. This is not |
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+ required for Hyperthreading support. |
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+ |
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+acpi=off Completely disables ACPI. This is useful on some older |
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+ systems, and is also a requirement for using APM. This will |
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+ disable any Hyperthreading support of your processor. |
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+ |
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+console=X This sets up serial console access for the CD. The first |
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+ option is the device, usually ttyS0 on amd64, followed by any |
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+ connection options, which are comma separated. The default |
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+ options are 9600,8,n,1. |
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+ |
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+dmraid=X This allows for passing options to the device-mapper RAID |
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+ subsystem. Options should be encapsulated in quotes. |
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+ |
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+doapm This loads APM driver support. This requires you to also use |
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+ acpi=off. |
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+ |
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+dobladecenter This adds some extra pauses into the boot process for the slow |
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+ USB CDROM of the IBM BladeCenter. |
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+ |
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+dopcmcia This loads support for PCMCIA and Cardbus hardware and also |
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+ causes the pcmcia cardmgr to be started by the CD on boot. |
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+ This is only required when booting from a PCMCIA/Cardbus device. |
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+ |
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+doscsi This loads support for most SCSI controllers. This is also a |
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+ requirement for booting most USB devices, as they use the SCSI |
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+ subsystem of the kernel. |
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+ |
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+hda=stroke This allows you to partition the whole hard disk even when your |
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+ BIOS is unable to handle large disks. This option is only used |
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+ on machines with an older BIOS. Replace hda with the device |
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+ that is requiring this option. |
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+ |
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+ide=nodma This forces the disabling of DMA in the kernel and is required |
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+ by some IDE chipsets and also by some CDROM drives. If your |
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+ system is having trouble reading from your IDE CDROM, try this |
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+ option. This also disables the default hdparm settings from |
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+ being executed. |
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+ |
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+noapic This disables the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller |
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+ that is present on newer motherboards. It has been known to |
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+ cause some problems on older hardware. |
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+ |
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+nodetect This disables all of the autodetection done by the CD, |
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+ including device autodetection and DHCP probing. This is |
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+ useful for doing debugging of a failing CD or driver. |
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+ |
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+nodhcp This disables DHCP probing on detected network cards. This is |
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+ useful on networks with only static addresses. |
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+ |
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+nodmraid Disables support for device-mapper RAID, such as that used for |
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+ on-board IDE/SATA RAID controllers. |
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+ |
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+nofirewire This disables the loading of Firewire modules. This should only |
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+ be necessary if your Firewire hardware is causing a problem |
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+ with booting the CD. |
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+ |
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+nogpm This disables gpm console mouse support. |
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+ |
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+nohotplug This disables the loading of the hotplug and coldplug init |
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+ scripts at boot. This is useful for doing debugging of a |
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+ failing CD or driver. |
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+ |
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+nokeymap This disables the keymap selection used to select non-US |
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+ keyboard layouts. |
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+ |
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+nolapic This disables the local APIC on Uniprocessor kernels. |
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+ |
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+nosata This disables the loading of Serial ATA modules. This is |
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+ useful if your system is having problems with the SATA subsystem. |
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+ |
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+nosmp This disables SMP, or Symmetric Multiprocessing, on SMP-enabled |
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+ kernels. This is useful for debugging SMP-related issues with |
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+ certain drivers and motherboards. |
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+ |
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+nosound This disables sound support and volume setting. This is useful |
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+ for systems where sound support causes problems. |
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+ |
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+nousb This disables the autoloading of USB modules. This is useful |
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+ for debugging USB issues. |
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+ |
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+<comment>Volume/Device Management:</comment> |
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+ |
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+dodevfs This enables the deprecated device filesystem on 2.6 systems. |
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+ You will also need to use noudev for this to take effect. |
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+ Since devfs is the only option with a 2.4 kernel, this option |
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+ has no effect if booting a 2.4 kernel. |
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+ |
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+doevms2 This enables support for IBM's pluggable EVMS, or Enterprise |
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+ Volume Management System. This is not safe to use with lvm2. |
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+ |
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+dolvm2 This enables support for Linux's Logical Volume Management. |
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+ This is not safe to use with evms2. |
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+ |
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+noudev This disables udev support on 2.6 kernels. This option |
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+ requires that dodevfs is used. Since udev is not an option for |
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+ 2.4 kernels, this options has no effect if booting a 2.4 |
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+ kernel. |
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+ |
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+unionfs Enables support for Unionfs on supported CD images. This will |
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+ create a writable Unionfs overlay in a tmpfs, allowing you to |
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+ change any file on the CD. |
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+ |
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+unionfs=X Enables support for Unionfs on supported CD images. This will |
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+ create a writable Unionfs overlay on the device you specify. |
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+ The device must be formatted with a filesystem recognized and |
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+ writable by the kernel. |
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+ |
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+<comment>Other options:</comment> |
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+ |
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+debug Enables debugging code. This might get messy, as it displays |
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+ a lot of data to the screen. |
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+ |
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+docache This caches the entire runtime portion of the CD into RAM, |
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+ which allows you to umount /mnt/cdrom and mount another CDROM. |
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+ This option requires that you have at least twice as much |
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+ available RAM as the size of the CD. |
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+ |
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+doload=X This causes the initial ramdisk to load any module listed, as |
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+ well as dependencies. Replace X with the module name. Multiple |
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+ modules can be specified by a comma-separated list. |
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+ |
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+noload=X This causes the initial ramdisk to skip the loading of a |
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+ specific module that may be causing a problem. Syntax matches |
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+ that of doload. |
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+ |
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+nox This causes an X-enabled LiveCD to not automatically start X, |
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+ but rather, to drop to the command line instead. |
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+ |
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+scandelay This causes the CD to pause for 10 seconds during certain |
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+ portions the boot process to allow for devices that are slow to |
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+ initialize to be ready for use. |
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+ |
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+scandelay=X This allows you to specify a given delay, in seconds, to be |
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+ added to certain portions of the boot process to allow for |
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+ devices that are slow to initialize to be ready for use. |
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+ Replace X with the number of seconds to pause. |
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</pre> |
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<p> |
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</pre> |
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<p> |
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-You will then be greeted with a boot screen and progress bar. If you are |
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+You will then be greeted with a boot screen and progress bar. If you are |
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installing Gentoo on a system with a non-US keyboard, make sure you |
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immediately press Alt-F1 to switch to verbose mode and follow the prompt. If no |
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-selection is made in 10 seconds, the default (US keyboard) will be accepted and |
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-the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, you will be |
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-automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux as |
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-"root", the super user. You should have a root ("#") prompt |
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-on the current console and can also switch to other consoles by pressing Alt-F2, |
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-Alt-F3 and Alt-F4. Get back to the one you started on by pressing Alt-F1. |
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-</p> |
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- |
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-<p> |
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-Now continue with <uri link="#hardware">Extra Hardware |
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-Configuration</uri>. |
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-</p> |
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+selection is made in 10 seconds the default (US keyboard) will be accepted and |
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+the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, Gnome will |
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+start up and you will be automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux |
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+system as "gentoo" in graphical mode. You will be logged in as "root", the |
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+superuser on the other consoles and should have a root ("#") prompt there. You |
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+can switch to those consoles by pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4 Alt-F5, Alt-F6. |
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+Get back to the graphical desktop you started on by pressing Alt-F7. To switch |
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+to other consoles from within X, you must prefix the above with Ctrl. You are |
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+able to run commands as root from any terminal within the graphical environment |
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+by using the <c>sudo</c> application. You can even become root within a |
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+terminal to perform multiple tasks. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<pre caption="Using sudo to run applications"> |
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+<comment>(Example only)</comment> |
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+<comment>(Editing the group file)</comment> |
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+# <i>sudo vi /etc/group</i> |
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+<comment>(Becoming root for a session)</comment> |
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+# <i>sudo su -</i> |
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+</pre> |
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|
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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@@ -306,12 +426,12 @@ |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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-When the Installation CD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and |
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+When the LiveCD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and |
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loads the appropriate kernel modules to support your hardware. In the |
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-vast majority of cases, it does a very good job. However, in some cases it may |
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-not auto-load the kernel modules you need. If the PCI auto-detection missed |
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-some of your system's hardware, you will have to load the appropriate kernel |
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-modules manually. |
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+vast majority of cases, it does a very good job. However, in some cases, it |
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+may not auto-load the kernel modules you need. If the PCI auto-detection |
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+missed some of your system's hardware, you will have to load the appropriate |
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+kernel modules manually. These tasks require root access. |
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</p> |
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|
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<p> |
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@@ -339,9 +459,9 @@ |
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|
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<p> |
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If you are an advanced user, you might want to tweak the IDE hard disk |
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-performance using <c>hdparm</c>. With the <c>-tT</c> options you can |
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-test the performance of your disk (execute it several times to get a |
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-more precise impression): |
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+performance using <c>hdparm</c>. You will need root access to use <c>hdparm</c>. |
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+With the <c>-tT</c> options you can test the performance of your disk (execute |
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+it several times to get a more precise impression): |
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</p> |
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|
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<pre caption="Testing disk performance"> |
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@@ -355,8 +475,8 @@ |
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</p> |
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|
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<pre caption="Tweaking hard disk performance"> |
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-<comment>Activate DMA:</comment> # <i>hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda</i> |
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-<comment>Activate DMA + Safe Performance-enhancing Options:</comment> # <i>hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda</i> |
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+<comment>Activate DMA:</comment> # <i>hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda</i> |
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+<comment>Activate Safe Performance Options:</comment> # <i>hdparm -d 1 -A 1 -m 16 -u 1 -a 64 /dev/hda</i> |
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</pre> |
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|
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</body> |
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If you plan on giving other people access to your installation |
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environment or you want to chat using <c>irssi</c> without root privileges (for |
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security reasons), you need to create the necessary user accounts and change |
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-the root password. |
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+the root password. You need root access to change the root password and add new |
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+users. |
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</p> |
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|
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<p> |
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@@ -377,6 +498,7 @@ |
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</p> |
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|
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<pre caption="Changing the root password"> |
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+$ <i>sudo su -</i> |
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# <i>passwd</i> |
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New password: <comment>(Enter your new password)</comment> |
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Re-enter password: <comment>(Re-enter your password)</comment> |
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@@ -404,6 +526,18 @@ |
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# <i>su - john</i> |
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</pre> |
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|
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+<p> |
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+You can also change the password for the "gentoo" user in the graphical |
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+environment. This account is already suitable for use on the Internet. |
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+</p> |
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+ |
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+<pre caption="Changing the gentoo password"> |
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+$ <i>passwd</i> |
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+New password: <comment>(Enter your new password)</comment> |
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+Re-enter password: <comment>(Re-enter your password)</comment> |
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+</pre> |
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+ |
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+ |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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<p> |
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If you want to view the Gentoo Handbook (either from-CD or online) during the |
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-installation, make sure you have created a user account (see <uri |
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-link="#useraccounts">Optional: User Accounts</uri>). Then press <c>Alt-F2</c> to |
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-go to a new terminal and log in. |
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-</p> |
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- |
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-<p> |
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-If you want to view the documentation on the CD you can immediately run |
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-<c>links</c> to read it: |
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+installation, you can view it with Mozilla Firefox (from the graphical |
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+environment) or with <c>links</c> (from a terminal environment). |
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</p> |
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|
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-<pre caption="Viewing the on-CD documentation"> |
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-# <i>links /mnt/cdrom/docs/handbook/html/index.html</i> |
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+<pre caption="Viewing the on-CD documentation with Firefox"> |
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+# <i>firefox /mnt/cdrom/docs/handbook/html/index.html</i> |
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</pre> |
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|
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<p> |
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-However, it is preferred that you use the online Gentoo Handbook as it will be |
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-more recent than the one provided on the CD. You can view it using <c>links</c> |
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-as well, but only after having completed the <e>Configuring your Network</e> |
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-chapter (otherwise you won't be able to go on the Internet to view the |
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-document): |
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+If you would prefer to use <c>links</c> to see a text-only version of the |
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+handbook, make sure you have created a user account (see <uri |
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+link="#useraccounts">Optional: User Accounts</uri>). Then press <c>Alt-F2</c> |
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+to go to a new terminal and log in. |
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</p> |
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|
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-<pre caption="Viewing the Online Documentation"> |
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-# <i>links http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml</i> |
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+<pre caption="Viewing the on-CD documentation with links"> |
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+# <i>links /mnt/cdrom/docs/handbook/html/index.html</i> |
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</pre> |
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|
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<p> |
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-You can go back to your original terminal by pressing <c>Alt-F1</c>. |
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+You can go back to your original window by pressing <c>Alt-F7</c>. |
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</p> |
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|
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-</body> |
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-</subsection> |
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-<subsection> |
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-<title>Optional: Starting the SSH Daemon</title> |
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-<body> |
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- |
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<p> |
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-If you want to allow other users to access your computer during the |
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-Gentoo installation (perhaps because those users are going to help you |
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-install Gentoo, or even do it for you), you need to create a user |
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-account for them and perhaps even provide them with your root password |
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-(<e>only</e> do that <e>if</e> you <b>fully trust</b> that user). |
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+However, it is preferred that you use the online Gentoo Handbook as it will be |
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+more recent than the one provided on the CD. You can view it using Firefox or |
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+<c>links</c> as well, but only after having completed the <e>Configuring your |
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+Network</e> chapter (otherwise you won't be able to go on the Internet to view |
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+the document): |
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</p> |
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|
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-<p> |
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-To fire up the SSH daemon, execute the following command: |
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-</p> |
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+<pre caption="Viewing the online documentation with Firefox"> |
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+# <i>firefox http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml</i> |
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+</pre> |
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|
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-<pre caption="Starting the SSH daemon"> |
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-# <i>/etc/init.d/sshd start</i> |
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+<pre caption="Viewing the online documentation with links"> |
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+# <i>links http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml</i> |
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</pre> |
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|
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<p> |
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-To be able to use sshd, you first need to set up your networking. Continue with |
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-the chapter on <uri link="?part=1&chap=3">Configuring your Network</uri>. |
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+You can now choose to proceed by using the <uri link="?part=1&chap=3">GTK+ |
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+based installer</uri> (which needs X) or the <uri |
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+link="?part=1&chap=4">Dialog based installer</uri> that can be run on a |
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+console. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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