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I don't think its your partitions because you partition and format them
during
the installation process... so you should get to a prompt with no
partitions.
The Gentoo installer - for me - has been quite robust whereas Ubuntu has
been
a constant pain with the install crashing part way through and thats with
5.10 and 6.04 and on various computers.
to totally eliminate formatting as problem: disconnect hard drive and boot
the live cd; bios will probably tell you no hard drive but should offer a
continue option like "Press F1". BTW power off while
disconnecting/connecting.
You get the AMD64 install didn't you? there is also an IA64 (Intel Arch)
which
is a bit confusing.
Kevin.
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:59, Iain McKee wrote:
Okay so I probably shouldn't be using gentoo, since I have minimal linux
experience (yellowdog and ubuntu), but there is only one way to learn
right.
I recently bought a machine with an amd64 3400+ processor.
I downloaded the amd64 install, burned it to CD and verified that it was
complete and working. I wanted to keep windows, so I used partition magic
8
to create the linux partitions, then rebooted with the gentoo install CD.
But now when initially boot, the CD hangs at 68%...in verbose mode, it
looks
as though it is sticking when checking my processor.
any idea how to figure out what I have done wrong? The partitioning
should
be fine, but I am starting to wonder since no distros will work. I can't
even get the live installer to finish the hardware verification and that
worries me.
The only boot disk i have for windows is not a restore, but a bare minimum
XP install. I would rather not format completely
Sorry for being such a newbie, any help is appreciated!!!
BTW, I did try booting with a couple of other linux install discs. They
were
x86 and did not work. I'm not sure if this is because of what I messed up
or
if it is because they are x86.
ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED!!!!
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