I'm trying to install a stage1 gentoo linux from a livecd.
Problem No1: Kernel-Panic while booting from the cd. The last line is: ''Starting USB and PCI hotplugging...' The next time I booted with the parameters: 'gentoo nohotplug' That worked, but I got the message 'No network device autodetected'.
Two network-devices are available. A SiS 900 and a 3Com (3c905c-TX) card.
I searched for the drivers as described in the gentoo-installation instruction, but
loading them leads to the same result -> kernel panic.
'modprobe sis900'
'modprobe 3c59x'
('modprobe ieee1394' for the firewire worked fine)
Not knowing how to resolve the problem I continued without
having the network configured..
I untared stage1, the portage-snapshot and the source-code from the livecd, did
everything necessary as described in the documentation handbook, but when it
comes to the bootstrap-part problem No 2 arises.
the bootstrap.sh script tries to download 'portage-2.0.49-r4.tar.bz2', but unfortunatly due to the problems mentioned above I do not have an internet-connection. What did I understand wrong? I thought it was possible to install Gentoo without a connection to the internet?
I searched the web for the network-card-problem but didn't find nothing useful (at least not for my linux knowledge). On the same machine I have also XP installed, and there both cards just work fine.
I hope somebody is able to help me.
Regards, Martin
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