Thanks for the pointers. I've installed FreeBSD temporarily (without any problems) and will look at installing Gentoo when I have a spare weekend. Probably will also look at using DISTCC as compiling on the Crusoe seems likely to be real slow.
On Sunday 12 Oct 2003 00:39 am, Stroller wrote: > On 10 Oct 2003, at 9:20 pm, latin hypercube wrote: > > Trying to install 1.4 on Sony Vaio C1MHP with bootable firewire CD > > drive. > > > > Using nofb and "dofirewire" seems to boot OK and find the > > firewire/1394 device > > but later fails to find cd dev and drops to v. limited shell. > > I have Gentoo on a C1XD - a 400mhz PII picturebook. This part of the > install truly was a PITA, but everything since has been fairly > straight-forward - it just took a while to work out how to get the > frame-buffer working in wide-screen & lots of recompiles for other bits > & pieces of hardware. > > As HvR points out, the important thing for you at this stage is to get > booted-up with any Linux which will allow you to chroot in, download & > extract stage3 & compile a kernel. See code listing 8.3 at > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap8>. Once > you have the C1 booting you can worry about anything else afterwards. > > I found this list most helpful: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vaio-pcg-c1-general > I think there are links there to other Linux-on-the-C1 sites; > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ is also great, and a Google for "vaio C1 > Linux" turns up a few hintful pages. > > Please post back if you have any more problems - the more installations > of Gentoo on these cute little lappies, the better! > > Stroller. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
