Hi all, thanks for the suggestions. I've tried gnewsense recently and had the same problem as Debian. For Debian I used the page linked above.
I'm trying to install Gentoo now, but I don't understand how to use fdisk to create the partitions. I haven't created disk partitions with commands since Windows 95. :D On Monday, August 4, 2014 10:03:23 PM UTC+10, Anthony Basile wrote: > > On 08/03/14 21:46, Dennis Lan (dlan) wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Justin Cormack > > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 12:13 PM, David Crawford <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I've dug my Yeeloong 2F out of storage and have been trying to get an > OS > >>> onto it. I've tried Debian, but it fails to install GRUB - then > cannot find > >>> boot.cfg when it tries to boot. I wasn't able to manually boot it with > karg. > >>> > >>> The only OS's I've managed to get onto it successfully are the Lemote > Debian > >>> restore and Free BSD. The former is in Chinese and the latter doesn't > have > >>> functioning wireless. :( > >>> > >>> I've had Debian working fine on it in the past - I'm not sure what to > do. > >>> I'll settle for any OS, command line or GUI as long as it's in English > and > >>> the Wifi works. Would appreciate some advice as to what's currently > the best > >>> OS to put on this system. The Lemote Debian would be fine if I could > get it > >>> into English. > >> Gentoo worked well for me. But installing it was a pain from memory, I > >> seem to remember just untarring it into a spare partition in the > >> existing system and then setting the bootloader to boot into it. > >> > >> Justin > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "loongson-dev" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > https://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2014/07/02/continued-support-for-the-lemote-yeeloong-gentoo-mips-is-alive-and-well/ > > > > > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/mips/desktop-loongson2f/ > > check the README file, all should good to go. > > > > Also read https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/mips/yeeloong.xml It > should not be too hard to install. I did my best to make it as painless > as possible. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
