It's been awhile since I played with gentoo-mips; however, the issue you are running into has to do with the fact that the Gentoo-Mips livecd is not, in fact, a true cd image. It is a HD image based on the Mips disc-layout scheme. This is mentioned in the readme included with the image(iirc, it also mentioned the build method for making the image, though not in any detail), which I believe was worked out by kumba or redhatter (not sure which one atm). If you really need help I suggest the #gentoo-mips channel on FreeNode. Someone in there will have had experience with your Octane2 machine; Me, I'm an O2 man meself... :) On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:12 AM, sébastien bertoletto <sbertoletto@gmail.com>wrote: > hi, > > We are a group composed of four students in engineer school and we work on > a project which is to design a cluster with SGI machines. We would like to > install Gentoo on our machines (SGI Octane 2 MIPS) but we have many > problems. Indeed, we need to modify the image disk of the live CD in order > to insert some software like GCC, Mpich (because when we try to install > Gentoo on the computer we have no x64 compiler on the live-cd and the > installation by portage fail so it is impossible to compile the kernel)... > We would like you help to understand how to mount the live cd image, it does > not seems to be a standart format. Could you help us to do that ? If you are > interesting to have the new live-cd we will create we will find a way to > transmit it to you. > > Yours sincerly, >