Hi List- Some hardware issue requires me to boot the subject CD with either the "nodetect" or "nohotplug" parameters. Without one of these, the boot process hangs when detecting pnp hardware. I suspect that the cause may be one of the two Digium PCI cards that I have in the machine, but not sure.
So I'm booting the LiveCD at the grub prompt with this command: gentoo-nofb nohotplug Happily, in spite of this, my NIC is being detected and the correct (tulip) module is being loaded for it automatically. However, the curses-based GLI is failing on me constantly at the stage where I manually configure the NIC. I've tried this many times, and every time, the installer program fails with the words: "The setup program seems to have failed" That's all I get. I've also tried setting up the network manually by editing /etc/conf.d/net and starting up the network, then starting sshd, then remotely logging into the box and running the installer that way. That method gets me past the network config part of the GLI, but I've found that the installer crashes at various other points also: when I try to save the XML profile and a few other points that I've just learned to try and avoid as I walk through the installer steps. But I'm at the point now where I've run the installer 15 or 20 times and every time it ends the same way, with the error message above. Sometimes it ends this way at the network config step, other times it ends this way at other steps, but it always crashes. Plus, I can't find anywhere in the script that it allows me to set mountpoints for the partitions that I've created. Is anyone else seeing this and can anyone recommend a work-around? I'd be happy to share my dmesg output or any other details if someone thinks it would help improve the installer program. Since the 2006.0 handbook assumes that I'm installing with the GLI, it seems that my only other option for installing is with the minimal CD and the general installation handbook. If anyone has other ideas on how to install from one of the 2006 series of CDs, I'd very much appreciate learning of them. TIA for any suggestions. -Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
