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On Tuesday 03 October 2006 22:57, "Christopher Koeber" <ckoeber@×××××.com> |
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wrote about '[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo with a true Hardware RAID |
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Controller ...': |
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> 3. If this is not possible, is there a way where I can do a no |
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> nonsense installation of Gentoo on RAM so that I can compile the |
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> kernel drivers myself? |
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2G should be enough to compile a kernel module, shouldn't it? ;) |
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Yeah, I've sometimes needed to do this to get access to my RAID arrays |
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attached to an areca 1160. Once you get a prompt in the livecd |
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environment, you'll already be on a ramdisk. Extract a stage3 somewhere, |
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copy over your resolv.conf, and chroot. Install gentoo-sources, |
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ungzip /proc/config.gz as your .config, and make modules_prepare. Now, |
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you should be able to build your out-of-tree module so that it will work |
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with your currently running kernel. |
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If you have problems, try updating system before installing |
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gentoo-sources -- once you have access to the drives you are actually |
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going to install on, you can always copy the updated stage3 to the disks |
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instead of extracting a new one and working from scratch again. |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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