Subject: Re: Gentoo 1.4 released
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 09:59:54 AKDT
Did you 'emerge -k sys-apps/pcmcia-cs' before your first real boot? (See the end of section 16 in the installation guide for this)
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Jordan, Network Services" <Timothy_Jordan@labor.state.ak.us>
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 9:34 am
Subject: Re: Gentoo 1.4 released
>
>
> I did not encounter any problems during install. Once the install was
> complete and I did my first reboot is when the fun started...:)
>
> Tim
>
> Justin Dieters wrote:
> It's just a standard Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA. Do you have trouble in
> generalorjust with Gentoo? For Gentoo, I just had to type in
> "gentoo dopcmcia"
> during the boot prompt to enable PCMCIA services, and then the
> card was
> automatically configured and set up to use DHCP. Justin Justin, do
> you have
> an onboard NIC or a PCMCIA card? I ask because I have had a tough time
> getting my PCMCIA card to work! -- HTML Attachment decoded to text
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> -- Justin, do you have an onboard NIC or a PCMCIA card? I ask
> because I have
> had a tough time getting my PCMCIA card to work! Tim Justin
> Dieters wrote:
> Thanks for the info. This is my first Gentoo install. I decided to
> go with
> the stage2 for 686 (Installing on my PII laptop). I had already
> downloadedthe Athlon ISO, so I booted with that, and then just
> downloaded the 686
> stage2 tarball and installed using that. It's working out so far.
> I figure I
> will save the stage1 install until after I get a better feel for
> Gentoo.Maybe if I decide to install it on my AthlonXP desktop. Are
> you talking
> aboutthe genkernel script? I decided to try it out too. Seems to
> be working
> so far - my laptop should be just about wrapping up compiling the
> kernel. I
> will just compile my own kernel later if I don't like it. Fwew..
> my poor
> laptop is going to be compiling until the cows come home. And I
> haven't even
> gotten to compiling X-and-friends yet. I use blackbox, but I think
> I'm still
> going to need to compile Gnome/KDE support for the applications
> that need
> it.. Justin ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacob Gemmell
> <evilbob@sdf.lonestar.org>[1][1] Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2003
> 8:01 am
> Subject: Re: RE: Gentoo 1.4 released Stage 1 can be optimized for
> any CPU.
> Its basically the point at whichyou start to define your
> optimizations. So
> the Stage 1 for a AthlonXP is the same as a Stage1 for a Pentium 3
> is the
> same as a Stage1 for a Pentium4 is the same as a Stage1 for a Via
> C3 is the
> same as a Stage1 for a Duron and so on and so forth. Down load the
> basic ISO
> and start from there. I noticed in the new instructions that the
> install now
> includes a script for generating yourkernel. I'm curious to se how
> thatworksout. On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Justin Dieters wrote: Is using
> the basic iso
> and setting optimizations manually preferrable to using another
> iso, like
> theathlon-xp iso? I was planning on learning the hard way and
> doing a
> stage-1install, but the only stages I see for the athlon-xp is 2
> and 3. Are
> stage1 tarballs> only for regular x86? Justin --
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