Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy
I've seen the rotating wheel thing once before on one of my installs. Other than that, there were no problems. To get around it, I simply set a passwd and used a different console. Wes On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is always there, > the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the rotating wheel) keeps > scrolling on each line. I can't even find any older possibly more stable releases of > gentoo on the web site. I was told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't > even get past unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the > installation will not be such an annoyance. Hopefully someone can give me a quick > fix for this otherwise frankly there are too many other distributions with easier, > quicker and more reliable installations for me to tinker with this anymore than I > have. > > 1 > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:00:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is > always there, the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the > rotating wheel) keeps scrolling on each line. I can't even find any > older possibly more stable releases of gentoo on the web site. I was > told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't even get past > unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the > installation will not be such an annoyance. It seriously sounds like you have some hardware that is less than up to the task, I'd strongly suspect bad ram, which causes no end of problems. I'd even seen it only turn on when I had a box fully optimized with Gentoo, as it didn't show up with the unoptimized Redhat that just didn't push it far enough. Grab one of the recent livecds, and at the initial cd prompt, run 'memtest'. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the rotating wheel is always there As well as using nofb, you can do something to get rid of the wheel thing. It happens because the hardware detection tool doesn't terminate properly -- I saw this once when I was trying to get gentoo running on a broken CPU. As soon as you get the prompt, do a ps -e and look for hw* (sorry, don't remember the full name). kill -9 it, run reset and then ctrl+l (ell). HTH, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:00:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is always there, > the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the rotating wheel) keeps > scrolling on each line. I can't even find any older possibly more stable releases of > gentoo on the web site. I was told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't > even get past unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the > installation will not be such an annoyance. Hopefully someone can give me a quick > fix for this otherwise frankly there are too many other distributions with easier, > quicker and more reliable installations for me to tinker with this anymore than I > have. > Try booting the LiveCD with the 'nofb' option. When booting from the CD press F2 to view the help screen with other boot options. That should get rid of any terminal problems. Other than that follow the installation instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml, the docs are very thorough and excellent. -- Bryan Traywick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy
Two things.. 1) I think your issue's are unique.. I've never seen any issue's like that before.. 2) If your short on time and patience.. then you may not want to play with Gentoo, it doesn't install like any of the other linux distro's.. That being said.. It will install MUCH cleaner, and much better optermized for your machine, because it will download what it needs and nothing more, and it will compile it to the specifications of your machine as it installs.. "Imagine a school with children that can read and write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." - Peter Cochrane From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 2:00:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from gentoo.org ([204.126.2.42]) by mc7-f20.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 23:01:11 -0700 Received: (qmail 28696 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Aug 2003 06:00:58 - Received: (qmail 15731 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2003 06:00:57 - X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Q1OJDRSDidP Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.10 (webedge20-101-191-20030113) X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH LOGIN at fep04-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [127.0.0.1] using ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Fri, 1 Aug 2003 02:00:11 -0400 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2003 06:01:11.0827 (UTC) FILETIME=[4F289E30:01C357F2] The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is always there, the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the rotating wheel) keeps scrolling on each line. I can't even find any older possibly more stable releases of gentoo on the web site. I was told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't even get past unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the installation will not be such an annoyance. Hopefully someone can give me a quick fix for this otherwise frankly there are too many other distributions with easier, quicker and more reliable installations for me to tinker with this anymore than I have. 1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Live CD is very buggy
The shell prompt for the live cd is messed up. the rotating wheel is always there, the terminal is not set up properly and the cursor(the rotating wheel) keeps scrolling on each line. I can't even find any older possibly more stable releases of gentoo on the web site. I was told that Gentoo is a very clean compile, but I can't even get past unpacking without errors. I hope with a fix for the display the installation will not be such an annoyance. Hopefully someone can give me a quick fix for this otherwise frankly there are too many other distributions with easier, quicker and more reliable installations for me to tinker with this anymore than I have. 1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
