Arrghh Gentoo 2004.0 probs.

mgillespie · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 170

Well I installed a Gentoo system onto a server last year, and was so impressed, that I decided to stick 2004.0 onto my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200), unfortunatly, the Wireless NIC card is not supported by Gentoo (there is a linux driver however ax100.sf.net), so I have to do a "offline" install.

I downloaded the following CD's

install-x86-minimal-2004.0.iso
packages-pentium4-2004.0.iso

And tried to install. I then realised that when it came to install the stage 3 packages, I had none, so I looked at the docs. Apparently, I need a bootable CD, with the packages on them. None of the sites have such a beast. So I am now stuck with 2 Gentoo CD's which cannot be installed.

Help....

simia · n00b Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 13

install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso should have everything you need.

P.S.: Not all the mirrors update at the same time, plus they are experiencing some technical problems with their mirroring system. Hunt around and you will find the files you require.

kotau · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

Indeed, the mirrors can be an interesting search.

took me 3 tries to find the 2004.0 stuff the other day.

2gen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 89

i have the same problem as mgillespie too. There are stuff that are located in the packages cd, how do i grap them when i am emerging with my universal cd? I tried to circumvent it by installing a bare slackware and then cp all the packages into the slack' s /home. When i have done setting up universal cd, i tried to cp the packages from /home, well, no luck there. Anyone have any idea how these 2 cd set up works? 1.4 is truely self contained with the cd1 liveCD, all the stuff requirred are there, but 2004.0, i couldn't even get genkernel and gentoo-sources emerged.

Please help me!

2gen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 89

Here's from the 2004.0 readme:

Please see the Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for x86 release notes at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/

The bootable install LiveCDs can be found in the livecd/universal/ directory.

Of the two bootable install LiveCDs available, the
install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso allows a network install using the on-disc
stage1 tarball, or an optimized stage3 install using one of the on-disc stage3
tarballs (stage3 tarballs for x86, i686, pentium3, pentium4 and athlon-xp are
included on this disc.) In addition, the necessary sources are included to
install Gentoo from a stage3 (but not stage1) *without* a network connection.
The install-x86-minimal-2004.0.iso is just the bootable part of the LiveCD.
Use it to boot your system and start a network-based install.

The ISO images found in the livecd/x86/, livecd/i686/, livecd/pentium3/,
livecd/pentium4/ and livecd/athlon-xp/ directories (named
"packages-<subarch>-2004.0.iso") are not bootable but are filled with pre-built
binary packages, including KDE, GNOME, XFCE4, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, Mozilla
Firefox, XFree86 and many more. Use one of these CDs (choose one appropriate to
your architecture) to set up a graphical workstation quickly.

We hope you enjoy Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for x86!

Looks like the universal cd must have the required stuff, but i just couldn't emerge genkernel and the sources.