On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:00:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is always there, > the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the rotating wheel) keeps > scrolling on each line. I can't even find any older possibly more stable releases of > gentoo on the web site. I was told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't > even get past unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the > installation will not be such an annoyance. Hopefully someone can give me a quick > fix for this otherwise frankly there are too many other distributions with easier, > quicker and more reliable installations for me to tinker with this anymore than I > have. >
Try booting the LiveCD with the 'nofb' option. When booting from the CD press F2 to view the help screen with other boot options. That should get rid of any terminal problems. Other than that follow the installation instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml, the docs are very thorough and excellent. -- Bryan Traywick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
