On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:16:42AM +0200, b.n. wrote > > > Why a limited shell? The gentoo livecd does not have those > > software? Or are you into a busybox or something? > > After the boot (which I presume is done via BIOS) the install program > can't find any drives (CD or DVD or HD). So it can only give me > busybox.
You may want to try the nodma kernel option to get your CDROM recognised. Also, the latest Knoppix CD/DVD may have hardware drivers that fair better than the Gentoo LiveCD. In my travels I have found that going around the LiveCDs of various distros will eventually end up with a booting CD from which I can install Gentoo. Depending on the hardware the distro CD is different each time. SUSE and Ubuntu are probably slightly better than the rest. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick
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