[Sussex] Please help me keep my hair!

[Paul Turner]

Building Gentoo with Knoppix was great,  boot in to a gui environment, turn
off the swap file and you can basically follow the gentoo install guide.
The big advantage is you can still surf, email, etc whilst you are
installing/compiling.  Great for online help :-)

(Geoff- nearly awake now ;p)


Paul.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Teale" <Geoff.Teale at claybrook.co.uk>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:52 AM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Please help me keep my hair!


> Adam,
>
> Paul (who is on the list, wakey wakey,) had problems with his Gentoo
install
> as well - although it seems the LiveCD simply didn't have a driver for his
> card on it (doesn't sound like your problem).
>
> Anyhow, you can install Gentoo using the older Gentoo LiveCD or another
> bootable distro (Knoppix is a good choice). Paul did this, and obviously
> when he compiled the kernel he made sure he selected the right drivers.
It
> could be that the rc2 Live CD has some problem with the drivers you need,
> Gentoo RC's are by no means bulletproof and this sort of thing happens
quite
> a lot - _please_ report this as a bug rather than just posting it on the
> forum, that way it'll get fixed before 1.4final; http://bugs.gentoo.org.
>
> A bootable distro will get you past the catch 22 of can't get my network
to
> work and thus can't get the kernel source to make the network work.
>
> --
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> tealeg at member.fsf.org
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