Ah, that makes sense! I should have looked a bit harder I guess. Thanks for the help.
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 22:37, Heschi Kreinick wrote: > 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 > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
