Actually, I'm very interested in this. I still want to see if I can run the 550 OS succesfully on my XTR but it turns out that Gentoo will run on every other system that I have access to: old Sun Sparcs, Apple PowerBooks, Windows PCs. This could have great advantages. Are you planning to port the Cobalt Interface or simply have a standard Gentoo installation on your server?
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:47:53PM -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Installing Gentoo on my XTR continues and is starting to go well. > > So far what I have done is extracted the Gentoo livecd.cloop which is a > compressed ext2 file system. You must extract it with cloop v 0.66-1. > Just like in the Gentoo instructions to install Gentoo in UML on top of > a RH install. > > http://www.omote.com/gentoo/install-in-uml.html > > I them mounted the uncompressed livecd image to my /nfsroot-x86 nfs > share. > > mount -t loop livecd /nfsroot-x86 > > I then had to modify the /nfsroot-x86/etc/inittab file. Commenting out > all terminals and adding the following line. > > 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear --autologin root ttyS0 115200 > > When I boot the XTR it mounts my nfs share and gets me to the point > where I can install Gentoo. > > Terrific I am stoked. > > Now on to partitioning, formating, activating the raid and the array, > mounting the new file systems and going on with the rest of a normal > Gentoo install. The raid part is of great interest to me because that (and memory management and swap) was what did in my 550 OS install. > > I will keep you all up to date on successes and failures. Whether you > all care or not? [How could I not care? I'm almost hurt that you'ld think I wouldn't care;) -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
