2004.0 1st Live-CD -- Testers needed

gcasillo · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:14 am Post subject:

Also appears that there is no host file (?). emerge system braked on perl-5.8.3 tests at IO/io_sock with:

gcasillo · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:23 am Post subject:

Emerge system braked on iputils-021109-r1. There appears to be a problem with an m4 macro in the configure.in file under iputils/racoon. In order to proceed, I had to remove the lines in the ebuild that build the tools under that subdirectory. I submitted a "patch" to this bug report. It is a hack that simply allows me and others to get iputils emerged (and continue an "emerge system"). The tools under that racoon subdir look like they're VPN/IPSec related tools: nothing I care about. And I know nothing about m4 macros, autoconf, and the like so forgive the hackish solution.

dsd · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:28 am Post subject:

i am trying to install 2004.0 on a system and i have run into a showstopper
posted info to bug 42461

any ideas?
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gcasillo · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

Do you want to run bootstrap-2.6.sh or bootstrap.sh? The former, I think, will start you off with linux-headers 2.6.1 or a revision close to that (2.6.3 is out, but hard masked I think). I just successfully built a box from stage1-x86-20040204. There were a few obstacles which I've already mentioned, but I'm working in my console now and beginning to make a workstation out of this machine now (install Gnome, etc.).

If, like the fellow in the bug report, you are running bootstrap.sh, then there might be something goofed up there. But I can confirm that a 2.6 bootstrap with bootstrap-2.6.sh has been successful!

dsd · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject:

bootstrap-2.6.sh gives the same errors. i have got around it now, by commenting out the lines that import the "missingos" module.
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dsd · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

hi,
thanks for the help, but i guess you didnt notice that i am the author of that bug report, plus i mentioned it 2 posts ago..

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gcasillo · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:36 am Post subject:

Something else I noticed during my emerge system. openssl appears to brake, because perl is not installed beforehand. FWIW, I have "perl" in my USE flags. I had to do some chicanery to install some stuff that does not depend on perl first, then install perl (5.8.3 in my case with ~x86).

darkcoder · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

OneOfMany · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

Anyone know why you have to edit the ebuild for 2.6 headers to be able to use the bootstrap-2.6.sh? It just seems like a clumsy step to force users to do. Shouldn't it be able to look at your use flags (or something similar) to get your ARCH?

int2str · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 362

I tested a new install yesterday. Bash wouldn't compile (USE=ntpl, 2.6 headers)....
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nmcsween · Guru Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 381

gcc gives me some bs about not being able to create exe's.......waste of time

rappayi · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 11

Sucessfull compiled till emerge system. Now X and kde going on
Faced a few show stoppers which were sorted out using this thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=136816&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=iputils&start=25

updates:
The road to kde 3.2 stopped at qt3 which complained of some missing libraries. So right now using enlightenement + mplayer+xmms+firefox+gaim . Sufficient for survival for a week since gcc is already there .
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bootstrap-2.6sh
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="nptl kde alsa acpi xmms gtk2 ssl X -cups -doc -fam -gnome ncurses opengl mmx mad mpeg png qt -samba -scanner sdl sse svga truetype -voodoo3 -wavelan -xinerma xosd xv zlib -3dfx -3dnow aalib -accessibility -acl aim apache2 arts avi -canna -cdr -cjk curl -debug dga directfb -dvd -dvdr encode fbcon firebird -foomaticdb -freewnn gif -gphoto2 -gstreaner gtkhtml icc icq imap imagemagick imlib -ipv6 jabber -java jpeg -lirc mozilla msn perl python tcpd yahoo x86 "

Master One · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 754 Location: Austria

I am really sorry for heaving to ask this here at this point, I know that this question is usually banned and nominated with an own FAQ:

Anyone has any idea if the final 2004.0 live-cd will make it until this saturday ???

The reason, why I ask this stupid question is, because I just read this release date (02/28/2004) in the gentoo store, and I just wanted to download the gentoo 1.4 basic live cd again, to start a new installation (I want to set up 4 machines with gentoo for beeing webservers + some more server services). As I want to give it a try with a 2.6 kernel + additional 2.6 features (like NPTL and UDEF-only), I thought it may be a better start using a new live cd with a 2.6 kernel.

But ready this threat makes me think the release date can not hold, as it seems there are still some bugs in it (that's why I also though of better not trying the actual experimantal 2004.0 live cd).
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soaringcondor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 103

I used the 20040204 stage 1 tarball in a chroot environment, worked like a charm even with my semi-aggressive set of CFLAGS.

T w i z t i D · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 50

i'm curious as to whether this livecd 0204 will alllow for a quick GRP install?

I'm not clear as to the features of this new livecd

darkcoder · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

And I'm more curious about this....

Gentoo store mention Gentoo 2004.0 will be available Feb 28 Gentoo 2004.0 for x86, and Distrowatch already shows Gentoo 2004.0 as released, but what worries me is that I have watch some time ago this forum thread and 2004.0 bugs submited to bugs.gentoo.org. Neither seen a new iso for testing that fixes some of the problems encountered, nor bugs marked as fixed on bugs.gentoo.

The bugs that I talk about are the following:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39896
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41011
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41142

For the list of 2004.0 bugs, check here
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xarst · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Spain

I'm downloading gentoo-2004.0-x86-20040204.iso from the FTP.
Do I also need the other file? (livecd-2.6_11-29-2003.iso)
How does it is only 60 Megs? Do it needs to install all from the net? (I have ADSL, but it will take forever anyway if it's more than +-700megs)
Thnx

darkcoder · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

That iso will only boot your system. It doesn't have any installation stages (programs). For that case you need the 20040406 ( or more recent ) stages in addition to the iso.
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mukwuknuk · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know why the experimental Athlon stages are only found in the sub-directory "hardened"? I want to try out 2.6 on my Athlon box, but I don't need a hardened version of Gentoo.

/pub/gentoo/experimental/x86/stages/athlon-xp/hardened

I'm referring to the download site structure here, not something that happens during install. Thanks if anyone can shed some light.
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mrastudent · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2003 Posts: 7

Strange, the 'ftp' program is not available on the livecd 2004.0. Is this on purpose?

And yes I know I can use wget, I had to do that.

Frozbyte · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

HI guys, when will GENTOO 2004.0 live cd be ready? i just saw http://store.gentoo.org/product_info.php?products_id=28 where the cd's are already availlable for shippment. i'm wondering if It will be available for download for the generale public like myself. looking forward to using version 2004.0

I noted that the version was compleate as of Feb. 28. 2004 as of today(http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/) and (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.0/releng/2004.0-press-release.txt)

when will we be able to download those live ISO's?

Thanks Gentoo.

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Nazgul · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:01 am Post subject:

is there a way to set the keymap?

with "gentoo dokeymap" I just got the default qwerty keymap
and I would like to have an azerty keyboard layout

aplesch · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 70

I noticed that the mirrors only have hardened stages, now that it is released. oregonstate has also standard stages. Are the hardened stages now the default ?
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