Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest

Conrad Wolf Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:59:04 -0700

What is the advantage of having a small boot partition. I boot my Debian system from a 5.4 GB partitions without any problems.

Cheers,
Conrad.

Brad Beveridge wrote:

I began installing gentoo on a laptop last night, my partitions are
/dev/hda1 - ntfs (gah)
/dev/hda2 - ext3, boot region, 30Mb (only needs to be large enough to fit 1 bzImage 
really)
/dev/hda3 - 500Mb swap (you can use your Debian swap)
/dev/hda4 - reiserfs for the rest.  - reiser or ext3 is reccommended
Brad
-----Original Message----- From: Conrad Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:49 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test run for Gentoo install fest

Sorry, but I won't make it to the meeting on Monday. This is particularly bad, because I won't be there for the test run of our Gentoo install fest next Saturday. My laptop is booting Nick's CD and I can get my NIC working. Is there anything else that could go wrong or that I should check?

Chris mentioned in one of his posts that 3 partitions are needed for the Gentoo install. What do they have to look like (size, type) and what're they used for. On my current Debian system I've 1 swap and 1 ext2 (/) partition. For data I've got a FAT32 partition that I access from Linux and Windows.
Cheers,
Conrad.
Nick Rout wrote:

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

please don't post html to the list if you can help it.

Its odd that the /etc/init.d/local script does not load the 3c59x module.

the script cycles through all the available net modules and tries to insmod them. If one (perhaps the de4x5) hangs then it may give the symptoms you observe.

can you give me the output of lsmod before and after you

load the 3c59x
module?
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:55:19 +0200
Conrad Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry, this was supposed to go to the list, not only to
Chris. Conrad.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Gentoo

installfest ISO files

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:43:52 +0200 From: Conrad Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References:

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I've tried it again and waited at least 20 min this time,

but there is

neither network nor CD activity. With the boot option 'nonet' this doesn't occur. I then get to the CL and can load 3c59x, but

I've no idea

how to start the network skript. Is there an equivalent to

the Debian
'/etc/init.d/networking start'?
Cheers,
Conrad.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:09, Conrad Wolf wrote:

Thanks Chris!

I've downloaded the iso (checksum was ok) and burned it. When booting with the CD I get a boot promt, but then during the boot process the box freezes. The last output is something like 'Searching for de4x5'. I googled for it and found that
de4x5 must be

a nic module. That's somewhat obscure, because I've got a

3Com card
which normally uses 3c59x.o.
So does my machine and it works ok.
How long did you wait?
That phase takes quite a long time.
Cheers,
Conrad.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:01, Conrad Wolf wrote:

Sorry to ask, but how can I download from a http url in binary mode? When I downloaded the iso with Mozilla, the checksum and even the file size didn't match. For ftp I normally use
the gftp
package, but I couldn't connect to the http url with it.

I've found the command line utility wget to be pretty well bombproof

wget http://www.linuxnut.co.nz/dl/gentoo-distcc-clug-0.2.iso

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