On (08/11/07 05:23) Miernik wrote: > Hello everyone. I use Debian GNU/Linux since ten years, on 32-bit Intel > machines. And now I bought a new computer, my first 64-bit machine. Its > a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ CPU, so I > thought that on such powerful beast, Gentoo will be a good choice, > things will compile fast enough. I am stuck with a "The setup program > seems to have failed." error during installation, so I'll tell you > exactly what I dit. > > OK, so what I did was: > wget http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/amd64/ > > Then, this machine doesn't have, nor will ever have any hard drives, nor > CD/DVD/any-moving-media drives, the only things that I want to ever > attach to it are USB flash pendrives and the Ethernet cable. So I bought > one 1 GB USB pendrive, and two 2 GB USB pendrives to play with, and with > the 1 GB pendrive I followed these intructions: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml > and that worked well, I have this bootable USB stick with Gentoo image > now. After that boots and I get the Gnome desktop, I switch to text > console, I insert one of the 2 GB pendrives into another USB slot, and > the screen tells me to type "installer", so I do it. > > I choose "standard" and "Internet enabled" and then he asks me "Which > drive would you like to partition?" and shows me /dev/sda and /dev/sdb > to choose from, where /dev/sda is my 1 GB boot stick, and /dev/sdb is my > empty 2 GB stick. So I choose /dev/sdb, and then the program quits > printing as its last words this not-very-useful message: > > "The setup program seems to have failed." > > So I am stuck here, what to do? > > P.S. This machine has 2 GB RAM, and I plan to buy another 2 GB or 4 GB > more, and then install Gentoo in such a way that the USB pendrive would > only be needed during bootup, i.e. that a compressed ramfs image would > be on the stick, and once it extracts into initramfs or something like > that, it could be removed, and whole system will run from RAM, ramfs, > XiP (execute in place) - that's what I want to do. But right now I can't > even do a basic install, so some help would be great. > > -- > Miernik > http://miernik.name/ > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Hi,
The graphical installer is known to fail sometimes (not always :-) Many people prefer the (old) install method - using a terminal. i've been following (svn) the quickstart script, meant to do a console install. Don't have a link but if anyone is interested will get it (IIRC it's in graphical-installed dev personal place). Would be interested on any experience about it's usability. HTH. Rumen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
