Zitat von Matt McKenzie- eRacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. hmm... this could be a problem i think... > > 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? have you checked the boot messages, if a 3ware adapter is detected during booting of the livecd? or are you absolutly sure, that the kernel of the livecd does not have 3ware support? do you know, is it possible that a 3ware is also recognized as a normal ide controller? if so, you can try to install on 1 hd and after the system works you can do an raid1 or raid5. i did it this way with an highpoint sw-raid-controller, but under an other linux distribution. martin -- > > 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 > > > > > >Zitat von Matt McKenzie- eRacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>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. > >> > >>-- > >>========================== > >>Matt M > >>eRacks Open Source Systems > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>www.eracks.com > >>========================== > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > - -- > ========================== > Matt M > eRacks Open Source Systems > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.eracks.com > ========================== > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/Sqq1uYe1TAgG/noRAvGIAJ9gwsoq5ahYvLKDyh5wTt/ujk1PlwCgztnK > jzbaVmE/JcbwMLD6M4hiGno= > =mK3i > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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