Mailing List Archive: Best installation method

Best installation method

Sep 7, 2004, 12:49 AM

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I need to get Gentoo on my old laptop but the LiveCD I have freezes
the system as soon as I select my kernel. I have tried all kinds of
different kernel options, and it even crashes going to memtest. It
can read the disc fine once booted, and my other computer boots from
it fine.

I have a CD burner in my desktop but I've never burned in Linux and I
can't afford another big project before I get some other things done.
The X & hardened gcc bug was a doozy for me, but I got it straightened
out with the help of this list.

I do have a Mandrake 9,1 bootable disc that can install or go to a
console, but I don't seem to have network access (or links2) in that
console. Is installing Mandrake and working from there the best thing
to do in this situation? If so, how should I partition hda so it is
easiest to finalize it later into:

hda1: boot
hda2: swap
hda3: root

- Grant

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Re: Best installation method [ In reply to ]

joel at joelmerrick

Sep 7, 2004, 2:00 AM

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Quoting Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>:

> I need to get Gentoo on my old laptop but the LiveCD I have freezes
> the system as soon as I select my kernel. I have tried all kinds of
> different kernel options, and it even crashes going to memtest. It
> can read the disc fine once booted, and my other computer boots from
> it fine.
>

I had this problem recently with the 2004.1 CD on a Dell machine. I used a
knoppix live CD to boot the run level 2 (only console) and started the build
from there..

There's info about the knoppix install method on the forums or at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml

> I have a CD burner in my desktop but I've never burned in Linux and I
> can't afford another big project before I get some other things done.
> The X & hardened gcc bug was a doozy for me, but I got it straightened
> out with the help of this list.
>

If you have a CD burner and X then emerge K3b (assuming you're using gentoo).
It's by far the best CD burning software available on the market. Otherwise
investigate burning ISOs from the command line (it's not hard)

> I do have a Mandrake 9,1 bootable disc that can install or go to a
> console, but I don't seem to have network access (or links2) in that
> console. Is installing Mandrake and working from there the best thing
> to do in this situation? If so, how should I partition hda so it is
> easiest to finalize it later into:
>

I'd say that was a very long way round i.m.o. If you do choose to go this route
then make sure that you don't install a lot of extra cruft that you don't need
(X for example..)

> hda1: boot
> hda2: swap
> hda3: root

That's what I normally use, yea

>
> - Grant
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>

Hope this helps,
Joel

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Re: Best installation method [ In reply to ]

crichey at gmail

Sep 7, 2004, 6:00 AM

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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:00:51 +0000, joel@joelmerrick.com
<joel@joelmerrick.com> wrote:
> Quoting Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>:
>

> If you have a CD burner and X then emerge K3b (assuming you're using gentoo).
> It's by far the best CD burning software available on the market. Otherwise
> investigate burning ISOs from the command line (it's not hard)
>

If you have KDE, this is fine; otherwise you are looking at 12+ hourse
of emerge just to get a bloody cdwriter function that boils down to
something like 'cdrecord -v speed=? -eject dev=addressofyourwriter
nameofiso.iso'. So, why not just install cdrtools and learn the
appropriate cdrecord command? YMMV.

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Re: Best installation method [ In reply to ]

motub at planet

Sep 7, 2004, 6:21 AM

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Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:00:51 +0000, joel@joelmerrick.com
> <joel@joelmerrick.com> wrote:
>
>>Quoting Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>:
>>
>
>
>>If you have a CD burner and X then emerge K3b (assuming you're using gentoo).
>>It's by far the best CD burning software available on the market. Otherwise
>>investigate burning ISOs from the command line (it's not hard)
>>
>
>
> If you have KDE, this is fine; otherwise you are looking at 12+ hourse
> of emerge just to get a bloody cdwriter function that boils down to
> something like 'cdrecord -v speed=? -eject dev=addressofyourwriter
> nameofiso.iso'.

Not true. K3b can be emerged -kde and -arts (you have to do both). All
you lose is the ability to use K3bSetup2 (only available if K3b is
compiled with KDE support).

Holly

> So, why not just install cdrtools and learn the
> appropriate cdrecord command? YMMV.
>

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Re: Best installation method [ In reply to ]

joel at joelmerrick

Sep 7, 2004, 6:30 AM

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Quoting Collins Richey <crichey@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:00:51 +0000, joel@joelmerrick.com
> <joel@joelmerrick.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>:
> >
>
> > If you have a CD burner and X then emerge K3b (assuming you're using
> gentoo).
> > It's by far the best CD burning software available on the market. Otherwise
> > investigate burning ISOs from the command line (it's not hard)
> >
>
> If you have KDE, this is fine; otherwise you are looking at 12+ hourse
> of emerge just to get a bloody cdwriter function that boils down to

The 12+ Hourse of Emerge - sounds like a book title ;)

> something like 'cdrecord -v speed=? -eject dev=addressofyourwriter
> nameofiso.iso'. So, why not just install cdrtools and learn the
> appropriate cdrecord command? YMMV.
>

Yea, that would be far the quickest way to record.. but it's worth the time
taken to emerge k3b (at some point at least) to quickly burn CDs (not just
.isos too)

Learning the command line is great of course.. especially if you want to start
scripting backups et al.

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