[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Arm64

2015-07-01 Thread James
So, (yippee!) My new arm64 board has finally shipped. (bummer_dude) Looking around for arm64 install instructions for gentoo (binary image, minimal_cd, cross compile or the old gentoo-embedded-handbook yields squat (nodda::noThing::zarro::null::ziltchen) ::=verboten ?[1] I did find this::

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/01/2015 08:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity,

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Jc GarcĂ­a
2015-07-01 9:17 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu: My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity, and

[gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread gottlieb
My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity, and burned it to a USB stick with dd. However the

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread gottlieb
Thank you Daniel, Mick, and Jc for the clarifications/suggestions. To respond to Jc, yes I used systemd so you suggestion is apt. thanks again to all, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 01 Jul 2015 16:33:42 Daniel Frey wrote: On 07/01/2015 08:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Arm64

2015-07-01 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: So what I would like to do is just boot the board:: [ 8CORE ARMV8A SOC,1GB RAM,4GB EMMC,WIFI/BT ] with an existing gentoo image just to exercise (test) the hardware, before installing it from scratch. Any and all suggestions are most welcome. I don't have links to pre-built