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Felix Miata composed on 2015-08-05 22:23 (UTC-0400): |
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> After reading |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD |
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> which does not link to it until after its first mention I spent considerable |
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> time on http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/ trying to find one. The only iso |
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> files I managed to find are DVD size. When I reach the location that I think |
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> should list them, |
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> http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-iso (aka |
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> www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo), I consistently get this instead: |
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> http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/images/bucket.jpg |
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> Sorry, we cannot find your kernels |
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My brain got entangled again. I did find the minimal install .iso, but not |
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one corresponding to the Gentoo starting point I wanted, something resembling |
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the date of the stage below. :-p |
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> I really wanted to install by booting from an installed Linux anyway, but |
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> first command after extracting stage and chrooting, I got this: |
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> failed to run command '/bin/bash': Exec format error |
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> When I attempted to find the stage file to download in the first place, they |
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> all seemed to be arch-agnostic, so this is the one I tried (newest pre-Grub2): |
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> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/sh/autobuilds/20120323/sh4-unknown-linux-gnu/stage3-sh4-20120307.tar.bz2 |
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> Kernel booted from is Debian Jessie's 3.16.0-4-amd64, on a Core2Duo E8400, so |
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> I'm confused why the apparent arch error message. ??? |
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"The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant |
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