Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: Josh McCormack <joshmccormack@××××××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-ppc-user@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] working Old World Linux Mac
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:22:40
Message-Id: A25032B6-31CF-11D7-BACA-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] working Old World Linux Mac by Josh McCormack
1 Hi Josh,
2
3 user = root
4 pass = <just press enter>
5
6 should do, if not let me know
7
8 On Monday, Jan 27, 2003, at 00:33 Europe/Brussels, Josh McCormack wrote:
9
10 > I set BootX to the settings I got from Pieter Van den Abeele, but was
11 > still having some problems. I tried pointing to the livecd.img file on
12 > the CD, but got complainst during boot of trying to go beyond the
13 > system. So I copied the contents of the CD onto a directory in the
14 > System folder of the same name, pointed it there, changed my ramdisk
15 > size to 24000, which some reported as having helped, and things look
16 > good. Got lots of things loading, but now I'm stuck at a prompt:
17
18 ramdisk should only be set to 24000 if you are using the rescue.img,
19 7000 should do for live.img, but more doesn't hurt.
20
21 > LiveCD.GentooPPC login:
22 >
23 > hitting enter only gets the same, putting in just anything then
24 > prompts me for a password, which ends up being wrong. What should I be
25 > putting in here?
26 >
27 > Josh
28 >
29 >
30 > tom wrote:
31 >
32 >> Josh McCormack wrote:
33 >>
34 >>> Did you use an image like this one?
35 >>> .../pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/ppc/stage1-ppc-
36 >>> 1.4_rc1.tbz2
37 >>> <http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/
38 >>> 1.4_rc1/ppc/stage1-ppc-1.4_rc1.tbz2>
39 >>>
40 >>> I found 1.4_rc1 and 1.4_rc3 (in a rc2 directory) and experimental
41 >>> ones.
42 >>>
43 >>> Is there a special way to burn this onto a CD? I'm burning on
44 >>> Windows, and I don't think I did it right.
45 >>
46 >>
47 >> I used an iso from the experimental directory:
48 >>
49 >>
50 >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/
51 >> ppc/livecd/livecd-ppc-281202.iso
52 >>
53 >> I used this as the system image to boot into. You just have to burn
54 >> the CD as a raw image file. The .tbz2 files are the stages that you
55 >> make into your new gentoo system. You boot into the system on the
56 >> LiveCD, partition your disks, make your filesystems, set up your
57 >> network, and extract your stage tarball onto said filesystems. Then
58 >> you are able to chroot into your baby system and (for stage1)
59 >> bootstrap. The docs for 1.2 are pretty much applicable, and much more
60 >> in depth than I am :)
61 >>
62 >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-install.xml
63 >>
64 >> HTH,
65 >>
66 >> tom
67 >>
68 >>
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71 >>
72 >
73 >
74 >
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