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Hi Josh, |
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user = root |
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pass = <just press enter> |
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should do, if not let me know |
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On Monday, Jan 27, 2003, at 00:33 Europe/Brussels, Josh McCormack wrote: |
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> I set BootX to the settings I got from Pieter Van den Abeele, but was |
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> still having some problems. I tried pointing to the livecd.img file on |
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> the CD, but got complainst during boot of trying to go beyond the |
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> system. So I copied the contents of the CD onto a directory in the |
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> System folder of the same name, pointed it there, changed my ramdisk |
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> size to 24000, which some reported as having helped, and things look |
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> good. Got lots of things loading, but now I'm stuck at a prompt: |
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ramdisk should only be set to 24000 if you are using the rescue.img, |
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7000 should do for live.img, but more doesn't hurt. |
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> LiveCD.GentooPPC login: |
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> hitting enter only gets the same, putting in just anything then |
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> prompts me for a password, which ends up being wrong. What should I be |
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> putting in here? |
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> Josh |
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> tom wrote: |
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>> Josh McCormack wrote: |
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>>> Did you use an image like this one? |
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>>> .../pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/ppc/stage1-ppc- |
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>>> 1.4_rc1.tbz2 |
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>>> <http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/ |
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>>> 1.4_rc1/ppc/stage1-ppc-1.4_rc1.tbz2> |
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>>> I found 1.4_rc1 and 1.4_rc3 (in a rc2 directory) and experimental |
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>>> ones. |
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>>> Is there a special way to burn this onto a CD? I'm burning on |
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>>> Windows, and I don't think I did it right. |
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>> I used an iso from the experimental directory: |
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>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/ |
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>> ppc/livecd/livecd-ppc-281202.iso |
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>> I used this as the system image to boot into. You just have to burn |
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>> the CD as a raw image file. The .tbz2 files are the stages that you |
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>> make into your new gentoo system. You boot into the system on the |
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>> LiveCD, partition your disks, make your filesystems, set up your |
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>> network, and extract your stage tarball onto said filesystems. Then |
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>> you are able to chroot into your baby system and (for stage1) |
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>> bootstrap. The docs for 1.2 are pretty much applicable, and much more |
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>> in depth than I am :) |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-install.xml |
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>> HTH, |
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>> tom |
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