On Tue, 28 May 2002 09:56:40 -0500 Richard R. Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins > > trying to put gentoo on a laptop, > > AST P series MMX 150 P I > 2 gig HD 32 meg Mem soon to be 80 meg. > > got the 137953280 May 25 00:15 gentoo-i686-1.1a.iso > and used cdrecord to cdrom I get the following on the cd: > [root@RickSivernell rick]# ll /mnt/cdrom > total 126386 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Apr 8 14:41 isolinux > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8119004 Apr 8 14:41 > stage1-ix86-1.1a.tbz2-r--r--r-- 1 root root 29118177 Apr > 8 14:41 stage2-i686-1.1a.tbz2-r--r--r-- 1 root root > 92178692 Apr 8 14:41 stage3-i686-1.1a.tbz2[root@RickSivernell > rick]# ll /mnt/cdrom/isolinux total 8241 > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Apr 8 14:41 boot.catalog > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8552 Apr 8 14:41 isolinux.bin > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 585 Apr 8 14:41 isolinux.cfg > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1130925 Apr 8 14:41 kernel > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 66 Apr 8 14:41 message.txt > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7295380 Apr 8 14:41 rescue.gz > [root@RickSivernell rick]# cd /opt/downloads/gentoo > > and it is suppose to boot, but does not. I must have done something > wrong? but what. >
I have no experience with laptops, unfortunately. Laptops are a mixed bag with any distro (YMMV). I suggest you search the gentoo user list archives at the following url. http://fireserver.ath.cx/gentoo/search/index.html BTW, I'm forwarding to the list. Doug Hunley apparently has a working gentoo laptop. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
