There was some bug with the spinner from something or other never going away. I gather you're new to unix in general--cdimage root# is the prompt; it's done, but whatever made that spinner won't give up. One message from a month back says you should try `killall hwsetup`. Anyway, even if that doesn't work, if you can deal with the silly thing filling up your screen all the time while you do the install, you're OK. -Heschi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Dobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:12 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Gentoo on Toshiba TE2100 Laptop
> The install starts off well but sits at the 'CDIMAGE' bar for over 15 > minutes before I give up hope and reboot the laptop. > Is it worth me waiting longer or is there some trick to getting Gentoo > 1.4rc4 to install on a laptop reliably? > I should note that the install find the laptops NIC fine and assigns an > IP from the DHCP server, it finds the USB bus but just never makes it > past the 'cdimage root #' bar that makes it all the way across the > screen and just sits there appears to be doing things (the 'spinner' at > the end of the bar goes round and round) but nothing else ever happens. > > > ...or am I just too impatient? I want to have Linux on this laptop but > don't want ot have to go back to Mandrake after running Gentoo on my > dekstop PC and seeing just how fast it is! > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
