On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 4:59 AM Michael wrote:
>
> Most Linux live media should work. Some additional steps may be required
> compared to a Gentoo Live-CD.
Not really. The process is the same. Most of that webpage is just a
disclaimer that if you're having trouble with some odd livecd you may
o
On Saturday, 3 October 2020 08:37:54 BST Jude DaShiell wrote:
> vinux is abandonware though for an installer environment still may work.
> I've never used one installer system to install another system myself
> though so if that's what we try it will be a new experience for me.
Most Linux live med
:47:26
> From: Neil Bothwick
> Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation problems
>
> On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:51:22 -0400, John Covici wrote:
>
> > OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l i
On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:06:11 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > What about something like Vinux. It's an Ubuntu respin for visually
> > impaired users, with plenty of options for screen reading and
> > magnification.
>
> I have heard of that distro, there are some others like it as well, I
> doubt i
On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:47:26 -0400,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> [1 ]
> On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:51:22 -0400, John Covici wrote:
>
> > OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l ine, not a gui and
> > I need speakup, so I will have to check and see if the Ubunto latest
> > has that in the ke
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:23 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> I always use SystemRescueCD to install a new Gentoo system. Never a single
>> problem with it, other than having to set up my own working conditions every
>> time.
>>
> Personally I tend to use Ubuntu - mainly because it
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:43:43 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> I dunno. I tested the installer thing when it was first announced
>>> years ago. It failed to install. It kept getting hung somewhere but
>>> with no output that I could find, I didn't know what was wrong or
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:43:43 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > I dunno. I tested the installer thing when it was first announced
> > years ago. It failed to install. It kept getting hung somewhere but
> > with no output that I could find, I didn't know what was wrong or
> > what to fix.
>
>
On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:51:22 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l ine, not a gui and
> I need speakup, so I will have to check and see if the Ubunto latest
> has that in the kernel.
What about something like Vinux. It's an Ubuntu respin for visually
impai
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:51 AM John Covici wrote:
>
>
> OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l ine, not a gui and
> I need speakup, so I will have to check and see if the Ubunto latest
> has that in the kernel.
>
Yeah, I get that, though I think the ubuntu livecd has a text console
op
On 2020-10-02, Dale wrote:
> I dunno. I tested the installer thing when it was first announced
> years ago. It failed to install. It kept getting hung somewhere but
> with no output that I could find, I didn't know what was wrong or
> what to fix.
Isn't that how automated installers are supposed
On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:38:54 -0400,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici wrote:
> >
> > Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk? I have
> > version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even
> > get a decent root prompt and I
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici wrote:
>
> Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk? I have
> version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even
> get a decent root prompt and I do need zfs, otherwise there are many
> options.
>
Don't want to beat
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:23 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> I always use SystemRescueCD to install a new Gentoo system. Never a single
> problem with it, other than having to set up my own working conditions every
> time.
>
Personally I tend to use Ubuntu - mainly because it just gives you a
nice de
On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:23:57 -0400,
Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> (Kmail seems to have stopped quoting the message I'm replying to.)
>
> I always use SystemRescueCD to install a new Gentoo system. Never a single
> problem with it, other than having to set up my own working conditions every
> time.
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2020-10-02, Dale wrote:
>
>> I was talking about the Gentoo installer.
> Huh. Didn't know there was one. Is this it?
>
> https://blogs.gentoo.org/chrisadr/2018/05/02/installer-a-basic-gentoo-system-anyone-can-install/
>
>
>
>
I dunno. I tested the installer thing whe
(Kmail seems to have stopped quoting the message I'm replying to.)
I always use SystemRescueCD to install a new Gentoo system. Never a single
problem with it, other than having to set up my own working conditions every
time.
I don't know what version it is, but it must have been about the last
On 2020-10-02, Dale wrote:
> I was talking about the Gentoo installer.
Huh. Didn't know there was one. Is this it?
https://blogs.gentoo.org/chrisadr/2018/05/02/installer-a-basic-gentoo-system-anyone-can-install/
On 2020-10-02, Rich Freeman wrote:
> As far as the minimal CD goes, you an just create mountpoints, but
> really I'm not sure why anybody uses it in the first place.
I usually use it. When I've tried to use systemrescuecd, I usually
ran into issues: you couldn't follow the handbook step-by-step
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IFIFY?
>
> $ wtf IFIFY
> IFIFY: nothing appropriate
"I fixed it for you", indicating that the quoted text has been
altered. More common IME is "IFYPFY", for "I fixed your post for you",
but that's also unknown to wtf.
Hmm, "IME
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 12:33:20 Hendrik Boom wrote:
> After my son, Henk Boom, who was an earlier gentoo adopter in my
> household, showed me just where the net.eth1 symlink had to go, it all
> boots properly. Thanks. I had never dreamed that firewire would be
> recognised as an ethernet!
Gla
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:33:20 + (UTC), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> After my son, Henk Boom, who was an earlier gentoo adopter in my
> household, showed me just where the net.eth1 symlink had to go, it all
> boots properly. Thanks. I had never dreamed that firewire would be
> recognised as an ethern
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:44:32 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
>
> Gut reaction, firewire.
> I've seen exactly the same on my own boxes.
> Debian is doing the same too, so I'd just go add a net.eth1 symlink change
> your config and use that instead, just don't remove firewire networking
> support, or
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:44, Mike Williams wrote:
> > What gives?
>
> Gut reaction, firewire.
> I've seen exactly the same on my own boxes.
> Debian is doing the same too, so I'd just go add a net.eth1 symlink change
> your config and use that instead, just don't remove firewire networking
> sup
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:03:57 Hendrik Boom wrote:
> It took some trouble -- as of now I only have emerge working in the chroot
> from Debian -- but after installing lvm2 it is not cheerfully recognising
> all the LVM paritions at boot.
All a good learning process, glad you got it working.
Oh an
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:03:57 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> It took some trouble -- as of now I only have emerge working in the chroot
> from Debian -- but after installing lvm2 it is not cheerfully recognising
> all the LVM paritions at boot.
Ah! Stupid typo! it is *NOW* cheerfully recognising
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:42:43 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:00:15 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Fixed /etc/fstab so that it now refers to /dev/lovesong/gentoo. And fstab
>> gets the message, because it now complains that there's no
>> /dev/lovesong/gentoo. And when I get a shel
On Sunday 15 July 2007 22:00:15 Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Fixed /etc/fstab so that it now refers to /dev/lovesong/gentoo. And fstab
> gets the message, because it now complains that there's no
> /dev/lovesong/gentoo. And when I get a shell, I discover that it's
> right. There is now no /etc/lovesong
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:37:57 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:00:47 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:53:27 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> Very interesting. It gets further with the dolvm2 pernel option (I
>>> specified udev first for good measure, as indic
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:00:47 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:53:27 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Very interesting. It gets further with the dolvm2 pernel option (I
>> specified udev first for good measure, as indicated in the howto, and it
>> got further. However, it still fai
On Saturday 14 July 2007 18:53:27 Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Very interesting. It gets further with the dolvm2 pernel option (I
> specified udev first for good measure, as indicated in the howto, and it
> got further. However, it still fails to handle
> /dev/mapper/lovesong-gentoo properly. fsck comp
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:28:00 +0100, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 20:19:33 Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> A few months ago I tried installing gentoo. It mostly succeedes, but I
>> was unable to boot the new system.
>>
>> When I boot, it fails as follows:
>> >> Activating mdev
>> >> Determ
On Saturday 14 July 2007 12:18, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> That's what I was doing, except that I chrooted from Debian instead of
> from the gentoo boot disk. I suspect the difference is that I was running
> a Debian kernel when running genkernel; if genkernel asks the running
> kernel what options it
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:49:45 -0700, ds wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> A few months ago I tried installing gentoo. It mostly succeedes, but I
>> was unable to boot the new system.
>>
>> When I boot, it fails as follows:
>>
>> >> Activating mdev
>> >> Determining ro
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