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ABF's experimental gentoo experiment

post #1 of 35
2/25/06 at 12:50am
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Haha...how many times have I made a thread about this.

This time, its different. Since i am short on time i'll install gento via the 0.2 alpha installer from the experimental live cd. if that goes well (version 0.1 wiped my partition table... a bug that was apperantly fixed in thsi version) then i'll pretty much have a binary distro + portage. i know its not as good as building it right from source, but its ok. once i am confident it works, i'll rebuild a lot of stuff (read: kernel and crucial apps) to make it work. the live cd makes my life easier because its gnome, and chances are i would go with gnome anyway. wish me luck
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post #2 of 35
2/25/06 at 1:44am
An experimental experiment huh?
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post #3 of 35
2/25/06 at 2:06am
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ernest_P_Worrel
An experimental experiment huh?
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post #4 of 35
2/25/06 at 12:07pm
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RESULTS:

Install Time Start: 10:20PM Central GMT+6
Install TIme End: 7:45AM Cental GMT+6

results: install complete! sweet!

the truth:
its installed alright, and from what i can tell it did not corrupt my windows install. yey! however, its far from being a smooth ride. gdm doesn't come up, and neither does gnome when i start x. that hurts. when i try to emerge gdm or anything else for that matter i get quite a few errors, and when i try to emerge sync, that is failing on me too.

things i fixed so far:
made touchpad move in x
fixed xorg.conf for correct resolution
fixed grub.lst so it now includes Windows as an entry.

stuff yet to fix:
gdm + gnome (or xfce4)
wifi
sound
etc

Review of the installer:
very easy to use. by far teh "Fastest" way to install gentoo to date. just give it some info (~10 min) and leave it on over night. come back to fresh gentoo install. so if you don't wanna do it the old fashioned way, or need to install it on multiple systems, this is a good alternative. the downside the install with etiehr work, fail, or install a bad config (like in my case). but 0.2 is a big step up from 0.1. cant wait what 1.0 will have in store
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post #5 of 35
2/25/06 at 12:19pm
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ok. i made up my mind that i will reinstall the OLD WAY. yep, the handbook. I also discovered that my newest install cd was 2005.0. figured why not give 2005r1 a try. did that, and man is it a big change. first of all, no longer do i have to do nousb and noacpi, it works just normal. also networking comes right up, unlike with 2005.0 which gave me hell with networks.

w00t!
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post #6 of 35
2/25/06 at 1:15pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by abf
ok. i made up my mind that i will reinstall the OLD WAY. yep, the handbook.
Excellent choice.
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post #7 of 35
2/26/06 at 12:35am
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i am getting really good at installing gentoo. but i kinda rushed through this one so i might have fudged something. its not stable at all. i'll try a re-do tomorrow maybe if i have some time. blah!
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post #8 of 35
2/26/06 at 2:06am
Good luck. Are you going 64 or 32 bit?
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post #9 of 35
2/26/06 at 2:06pm
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Originally Posted by abf
its not stable at all.
How so? You should be more than fine as long as you go with the stable branches and use safe CFLAGS.
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post #10 of 35
2/26/06 at 2:38pm
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i am doing a total reinstall this time. right now. 32-bit i686 with genkernel probably i dont know, not at that step yet.
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post #11 of 35
2/26/06 at 11:11pm
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reinstall finished. its better this time. i didn't fuxor what i did oriinally.

installed:

x86 i686 -O2 2.6.15-r1 w/gdm and xfce4

time to get things set up and working. then...finally....just maybe i'll finally have a good working gentoo system
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post #12 of 35
2/27/06 at 1:48am
I hate to bring this up now, but mmarkin just noted that Gentoo 2006 was just released.

http://www.gentoo.org/news/20060227-release-2006.0.xml
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post #13 of 35
2/27/06 at 1:54am


Ignore us, Abf, just get it working! You'll sync and update later!
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post #14 of 35
2/27/06 at 9:42am
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i noticed that 2006 was almost here. when i connected to the mirrors to get my stage3 and portage snapshot i noticed the 2006 folder. but when i opened it. nothing
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post #15 of 35
2/27/06 at 6:29pm
I'm downloading the 2006 live cd right now, thought I'd give it a try since debian refuses to run on my system (which I dont understand 3.1, I believe is the latest, just freezes), but slackware works.
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post #16 of 35
2/27/06 at 8:13pm
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Originally Posted by Ernest_P_Worrel
(which I dont understand 3.1, I believe is the latest, just freezes)
Might be ACPI issues. Search for power management related kernel boot parameters.
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post #17 of 35
2/27/06 at 8:16pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by abf
version 0.1 wiped my partition table... a bug that was apperantly fixed in thsi version
Did the same thing to me. All installed now though (from minimal CD), took a few days but got everythign about right...
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post #18 of 35
2/27/06 at 8:20pm
Wow this gentoo 2006.0 live cd is amazingly fast, I'm from pressing the power button to desktop in nearly 10 seconds. Considering the live ubuntu one takes at least a minute. No internet is working on it for me though, broadband or wifi :/.
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post #19 of 35
2/27/06 at 10:22pm
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same just tried the 2006. its nice and fast, but no net works

no net = bad
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post #20 of 35
2/27/06 at 11:25pm
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i finally figured out my misfortune with networking in the recent days.

its the HARDWARE.

lol. funny story. here i am fiddling with gentoo and boom! my lan dies. not the first time it happened. back in the summer i tried to fiddle with gentoo and that same day my lan broke. had to ship the lappy to get it fixed. the twist this time: i am out of warranty. gonna try to fix it myself when i have time (ie..not till thursday at the earliest) oh the joy. how do i know its the hardware? i tried to connect through windows, and through a livecd, nothing. tried different ports on my router, nothing, even tried a better cable, still nothing. bottom line is, i need a new lan. haha...just my luck.

EDIT:
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opened it up. eerr...gonna be more difficult than i thought originally.
go here for more info: http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...74#post1784174
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