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
