CONRAD Install Guide 0.7.5 - (__DEPRECATED__)

enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I've read that 4.1 actually fixes some problems found in 4.0.2, so it may actually be more stable than 4.0.2
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Tiger683 · Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject:

i did a stage1 install with 4.1_beta20051112, can't say much about longterm stability, but with enabled vectorization and --as-needed linker flag, system is a lot faster, and somehow my emerge--sync takes only 1 to 1,5 minutes ..

KDE works like a charm
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

One thing I considered was - It's a newer version with updates and fixes of 4.0, and it shouldn't be too unstable.

But of course,
I'm not going to add it to the guide yet, until I test it personally - Which I just sync'd and I'm going to try emerging it, before I tried emerging it and it just stopped after unpacking? I thought ebuild error, maybe its updated now, So I'm going to run a new update process, and if all compiles well, it definitely will be in the installation

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*EDIT*

Apparently I had to add, "I_PROMISE_TO_SUPPLY_PATCHES_WITH_BUGS=1" to make.conf

- For the ebuild to work.
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I'm going to build the new compiler tonight, and the world, if it all goes well, I will add it to the default install

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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

Sounds good. I've been busy reading countless Linux tutorials and such, reading over various distros and programs. I'm going to switch every box in my house to Linux in the next week and I plan on using your guide.
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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

Your Pentium 3 script is pointing to the wrong tarball. It should be:

http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2005.1/stages/pentium3/stage3-pentium3-2005.1.tar.bz2

Edit: Also, I have a question. Your step 2 script has several commented out lines to emerge various programs. Yet the install instructions say to emerge these even before you build the kernel.

What I'm wondering, is if I actually emerge these before the kernel, and before we establish the new build-tools, aren't we emerging them with the old versions of GCC?

I then need to rebuild them later on GCC 4 and GLIBC 2.3.6, etc. I know I've yet to do an install, but it seems to me that this step belongs where you commented it out, in the part 2 script, not in step 7 of your install guide. Again, I could be crazy.

seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

micr0c0sm · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject: nvidiafb

On a laptop with a nvidia video card and native resolution of 1920x1200, you will need to append video=nvidiafb:1600x1200 to the end of your boot line ('e' in grub). Nvidiafb detects monitors with a native resolution of 1920x1200, but displays it incorrectly (as does vesafb-tng).

I have a dell 9300 with 6800go video card and wuxga screen.

This is just a little heads up.

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

The Conrad LiveCD has been delayed

possibly another 2 days

I will be working my hardest now to get this to you, and get this to you right.

I will let you know production on the X-LiveCD has been started, a build environment with GCC 4.1.0_beta2005* is building as I type.

Here's my sad, very sad story...
I was in /mnt - Looking to mount a squashfs image from a lxnay DVD so I could get the, dvdinstall.sh, bash script and have a look at it - Unfortuneatly, I was ready to delete the image, I did rm -rf *, thinking I was in /mnt/squashfs, unfortuneatly, I was in /mnt, and the /mnt/conrad directory, with all the projects, LiveCD, Stage3, etc (NOT X-LiveCD

) have been deleted, before I realized what I did, it was irreversible.
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The Conrad LiveCD is going to be just as good, I still have the isolinux directory (thankyou) and I'm going to use a different compiler, gcc 4.1.0_beta*, it's , One unique minimal LiveCD built with GCC 4.1

- GCC 4.1.0_beta on this CD, GCC 4.1.0_beta2005* on the X-LiveCD
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Tiger683 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:41 am Post subject:

micr0c0sm · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: irc channel

so, how about an irc channel on irc.freenode.net ... something like #conrad or #gentoo-conrad or #conrad-gentoo ...

enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I can't wait for the new CD. I'm ready to do my first install.
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Tiger683 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:54 am Post subject:

expecting that it will simply take off and complete like usual conrad install is rather....
...wrong. There are many packages to still be fixed by hand, and one more thing:
if you aren'T going to test it only and submit bugs with patches fixing these, then you shouldn't use it yet
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seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

why else would i do it? im a small part of the development of this project and i was going to make the scripts for gcc 4.1.0 then and see how they worked if they dont work im gonna see how to get them to work.....

RobNyc · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:

Cheater, wish ur work best of luck. The way I see stuff I'm thinking about forgetting Gentoo since its so complex
talk to you later about this on irc
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RobNyc · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject:

As far as I Know u dont need a response from freenode, u can open it, register it etc right away.

I know some folks that can help u
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

I created a IRC Channel for CONRAD on FreeNode

jastom · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 6

hi cheater1034,

could you estimate release date for your X-LiveCD?

greets
jastom

enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I went to do my first install yesterday. The LiveCD will boot just find on my desktop unit, but halts with a CC error everytime on my craptop.
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carpman · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:

hello, ok using 5.1 version install and all seems ok on test box except when i try and vuscan (not an emerge app) soon as i try and do scan preview or scan pdflush hogs all the cpu and eventually box freezes.

I beleive the pdflush error is bug related to reiser4?

Bit of pain as this is to be boxs primary use.
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seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

im getting the pdflush error when i reboot with ctrl alt del in a terminal, im going to run the shutdown command and see it its just ctrl alt del doing it, i think i got one pdflish error when a emerge completed though. i havent had any problems in the past. i just did ANOTHER =) install. never seen that error before trying the latest script. dunno what it is.

vipernicus · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject:

Are most packages in gentoo building with GCC 4.0.2 without any problems?
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seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

never had a problem, make sure you read up on stable cflags.