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Hello,

Well part of the problem is I can't find the same kernel as the livecd uses.
It is 2.4.21-gss. Looking through the livecd itself there are no kernel sources.
The distfiles directory on gentoo mirrors only has the aforementioned 2.4.21-pre8-gss patches tarball. I am not sure if I can use these patches on a kernel.org 2.4.21 kernel.


Surely I can't be the first person wanting to install on a 3ware card. Is there no precompiled module available, on a bootdisk perhaps?

Thanks.

Ing. Martin Gauklitz wrote:


as i know 3ware adapters are supported by the linux kernel... i don't know the kernel config of a livecd, and also i don't know if kernel modules are available on a livecd... but what you could do is to compile the same kernel the livecd uses somewhere else (or in a chrooted environment) and change the kernel configs to compile 3ware support in a module and try to 'modprobe' this module in the booted livecd system to get the 3ware-support...


martin


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Hello group-

I am trying to install Gentoo 1.4 from the x86 LiveCD. I have a Pentium 4 2.66ghz system, 1GB RAM, with a 3ware Escalade 7500-4port IDE RAID card. Is there any way to get the 3w-xxx driver on here? I would prefer to not have to install gentoo in a chroot on another system, and tftpboot, or anything like that, if at all possible.

I have searched the forums, but all I can find are references to things such as "3ware cards are well supported in Linux" etc. But how do you install Gentoo with a 3ware card if there is no driver included? The 1.4 LiveCD uses a weird kernel-2.4.21-gss, (which I can't find in the distfiles btw, except for patch-2.4.21-pre8-gss) so how do I compile the module to work with the installer? Can I download a "stock" 2.4.21 kernel, and apply all the patches in the patch-2.4.21-pre-gss, and it will work with the LiveCD kernel? I have installed RedHat, Mandrake, etc with 3ware cards before with no problem, as well as *BSD. I have only installed Gentoo a few times now however, and not yet with 3ware cards.

Any help appreciated. TIA.

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