[gentoo-ppc-user] Installing on laptop

[josh]

I have gone through - made notes - tried a few thngs, figured out a
few places where the online instructions are misleading, incomplete,
or perhaps wrong:

  It seems I may have needed to have a kernel called 'vmlinux' for
  yabootconfig to work. 

  The instructions don't require a separate /boot partition for ppc
  but all the examples have one.

  The kernel creation gives "emerge =vanilla-sources-2.4.24", but
	"emerge ppc-sources" with no version numbers was what I required.

  The airport module is not included on the g3 cd's I downloaded so
	there was no way to use the wireless card.

Anyhow, I managed to get gentoo installed with minimal configuring
(too minimal) - and I can boot into OSX, though it isn't the default
though I thought I configured it to be the default - and I can boot
into gentoo. (I haven't even tested my OS9 partition yet though it
shows in the boot menu - BTW, I can hardly make out the yaboot boot
menu because it is so small.)

But now I can't use the keyboard when I boot into gentoo - so I'm
stuck at the login prompt. I assume that somewhere along the way I
missed a component or module that I needed to include. Which one?
I also guess I can boot off the CD and recompile the kernel.

Here is a quick 

1. downloaded and burned a G3 specific ISO.

2. booted from CD

3. partitioned drive replacing first useable partition.
boot thingy 9, swap 10, 2g 11, rest 10

dhcpcd eth0 
[in the instructions but I really shouldn't have needed] 
mke2fs /dev/hda11
mke2fs /dev/hda12
mkswap /dev/hda10
swapon /dev/hda10
mkdir /mnt/root
mkdir /mnt/home
mkdir /mnt/proc
mount /dev/hda11 /mnt/root
mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/root
mount -t proc none /mnt/proc

cd /mnt/root
tar -xvpjf /mnt/cdrom/g3-stages/stage3-g3-1.4_final.tbz2
tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/portage.tbz2 -C /mnt/root/usr
mkdir /mnt/root/usr/portage/distfiles
cp -R /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* /mnt/root/usr/portage/distfiles/
[can I assume a G3 snap shot would have the basic optimizations in
make.conf?]

cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime

emerge ppc-sources
[differs from documentation]
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
[changed little - best guesses for pismo powerbook - which were wrong]
make dep
make vmlinux modules modules_install
[# cp vmlinux /boot/kernel-2.4.24]
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.24
cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux 
cp System.map /boot/System.map
cp .config /boot/config

find /lib/modules/2.4.21-ppc=r2/ -type f -iname '*.o' 
[ no such # nano -w /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 ]
cat >>/etc/modules.autoload
airport
cntrol-d


nano /etc/fstab
/dev/hda11   /          ext2    noauto,noatime    1 1
/dev/hda12   /home      ext2    noatime           0 0
/dev/hda10   none       swap    sw                0 0
/dev/cdrom/cdrom0   /mnt/cdrom iso9660    auto,ro,user           0 1

none        /proc     proc    defaults          0 0
none        /dev/shm  tmpfs   defaults          0 0



echo broomstick > /etc/hostname
[hunh - need this fr yabootconfig to run]
mount /proc
yabootconfig
[editted to make default=macosx]

emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default
passwd


useradd josh -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash
passwd
exit
 cd /
umount /mnt/root /mnt/proc /mnt/home

[couldn't unmount root]

reboot


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Josh Kuperman                       
josh@×××××××××××××××.us


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