[LIVEDVD] Gentoo RR4 & RR64 LiveDVD Thread

cschmid · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

(I had posted this as a separate thread, but it actually goes here)

Trying to install Gentoo for the first time and hit a snag. I have two SATA drives that I mirrored with RAID1 using the tips in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID_mirror_and_LVM2_on_top_of_RAID#System_configuration. Everything was going ine and I was downloading the data for stage 2 when my power went out. Once power came back, I noticed that the raid partitions weren't visible anymore (that's fine, I read a post saying that the live DVD doesn't autoconfigure the /dev/md devices). I did a modprobe raid1, then tried the following command:

travail101 · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject: silly me...

but could someone point me in the direction of an exhaustive/complete list of packages/programs available on the LiveDVD, I need to see if I need to request anything for the next release ;-)

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Like for instance... DOSBox? I know it's silly, but i like to play me some ancient DOS Games from the 286 years... and with my hard drive recently dying, I'm going to be running my system exclusively from this LiveCD for as long as it takes to get Hitachi to Replace it... which they better do, it crapped out after 9 months, and had already developed bad blacks in the first 3 months... anyway, thanx in advance :-)

and thank you Ixnay for this seriously Kickass Live...Disc... :-P

. oh also if there no GTetriNET, that should be added too :-P

, but more importantly.. DOSBox.

I may have some more serious requests (as in non-gaming) requests after checking out the full list, wherever it is...

I spose I could just compare the changelogs from 1.05... was that the first public release? would checking all that be a complete list of all things available on the Disc?

Gserack · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: silly me...

travail101 · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: =P

yes, that Hitachi... it was 80 bux...(I think) good deal when I bought it. but, oh well now I know better. at any rate it was the cheapest one at the time by about 20 dollars and was 5400 RPM, so I figured, I'll give Hitachi a try... I've never used a Hitchi drive before, and I doubt I'll be buying anymore for a good many years more.

well... not the Deskstar... but the Travelstar. not that it matter's it's still the only Hard drive I've ever had die on me... that's not good odds for Hitachi

_Adik_ · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: silly me...

travail101 · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:12 am Post subject: :-P

phone number, I´d give the little bitch to ya if I didn´t need her as collateral to get a free replacement from the Global Hitachi Pimp Consortium

but on a different note... I used a seemingly not-so-great program called TrueDownloader to download the iso for 2.30, and it did some strange things, ebventually i ended up with a file matching the size of the ISO, and burned it... the CD has files on it that I can see in Explorer... but... upon trying to boot it, just freezes at starting grub...¨or loading grub, or something like that I never remember verbatum. think it´s a corrupted download? I downloaded it once in the past on the now dead HD and it booted in QEMU... I hate burning coasters... oh well... I will try again. this time I´ll use the windows version of wget, wget is tha shiznit. nothing like pimping the console on someone else's windows box with a GNU tool ;-)

EDIT: yeah... it was a corrupted download... needless to say i will never use TrueDownloader again... gives FOSS a bad name, anyway, the LiveCD boots and so on, but... if linux-wlan-ng is indeed on the liveCD, i can not find it, and "modprobe prism2_usb" certainly does not work. so my request would be getting the prism2_usb module onto the CD, and if possible a script to autodetect and autoDHCP it, but... really all i need is the driver module, and the userspace tools... i don't mind modprobing it and setting it up manually if need be (i have to do that currently with Knoppix anyway) alos, could skype get a bump to the latest 1.1.x.x version? that'd be tight

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

amd64 version is quite ready, I'm adding opengl support for nvidia and ati (both 32 and 64 bit)... hacking linuxrc....

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flipy · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 232

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

whatever happened to the ibiblio upload???? i am desperately waiting to get the live-dvd

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Gserack · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject:

travail101 · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject: A few things...

Can we get the prism2_usb module on the CD, maybe the latest Skype version, and... dd_rescue, that'd be cool... currently I can only get online with a Wired LAN connection... which I don't have 24 hour access too... so those wireless driver would be great... and Skype I use extensively for international calls, so a version bump would be very nice. dd_rescue I will need to salvage my Hard Drive partition if at all possible... this I may be able to get a different LiveCD for... but... I think it's small enough you could just throw it on ;-)

if anyone knows of a LiveCD that has the prism2_usb drivers from linux-wlan-ng, and the user space tools, other than:
Knoppix 3.7
Linespa .3

please let me know :-D

marco007 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 99

...and installer:) (y)

flipy · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 232

and maybe support for acx100/110 wireless cards (us robotics, dlink...)? Just need the acx_pci module, that's all. Would be very helpful!

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

Ok, I'll try to do all that's possible on 2.50 LiveDVD. It will be a full 2005.0 LiveDVD, I hope with an installer (I need your help) and with these features:

Dosbox
Skype updated
ACX100/110 (if kernel modules build correctly)
linux-wlan-ng
a stable mdadm
....
....

2.40 AMD64 LiveDVD is on the way, please be patient, I work on RR4 in my spare time. Donations are always accepted, if you want to send me something (

) please write me an e-mail :roll:

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lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

In the meantime, grab this: http://www.lxnay.scarlet.nl/snap-amd64-beta.png
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flipy · Apprentice Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 232

gouns · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Paris, France

Hi,

I downloaded the 2.40 LiveDVD iso with bittorrent but I'm not able to find the md5sum of it.
I have generated my md5sum of the iso I downloaded, is it the right one ?

81c34e56749f915fd2220ab52f5c3be2

Thanks,
A.

lxnay · Retired Dev Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 661 Location: Italy

gouns · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Paris, France

Thanks lxnay!

I'm ready to burn this great LiveDVD now

goprisko · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Shenzhen China

I have the Gentoo 2.4 RR4 LiveDVD successfully burnt onto a disk.

I have also successfully booted this and enabled ADSL.

I have read the install directions given in Lxnay's website.

I do not want to change anything. The system as is works fine on my computers.

Do I simply copy all the files onto my file system?

Do I then hand configure the boot files?

Where on the DVD will I find the docs explaining this?

Regards,

Indy

PS: Thanks for a fine effort !

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mj2k · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 9

could you please add the modules for mpt fusion scsi devices? I have a dell precision 650 and the livedvd doesn't work because support for mptbase and mptscsih isn't included

jani80k · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 40

Hi lxnay!

Your LiveDVD rocks!

Unfortunately, it does not have dmraid support. Could you please consider adding it to your next release?

Thanks a lot for this nice piece of software and keep up the great work!

jANI80k
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Kompakt · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 8 Location: FL

Thanks for the hard work. I've been looking for something like this to install Gentoo on my home machine. I already have it at work. I'm having a bit of a problem though...

I downloaded the 2.3 LiveCD version and booted with it. No matter what I choose from Grub, the system seems to pause at the Gentoo splash screen w/o showing any progress. I know it took me a while to install Gentoo the first time, but I dont think that its supposed to take that long to load from a LiveCD/DVD, or does it?

BTW, the system I tried it on is a P3 933Mhz w/512mb Ram. I'm looking forward for the AMD64 version to install on this AMD64 3000+ 1GB machine.

Thanks again...
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Tobias_R · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2003 Posts: 13

Anyone care to seed more? I've got a download speed of 10kb/s at the moment...

Thanx!

/Tobias

Hmm, I´t now does'nt work at all. Log:

tfh · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 59 Location: AFAD

I'm downloading the livedvd right now

is lvm2 statically compiled or is it linked to a library in /usr/ ?

There is a probem if it is dynamic linked as explained on the lvm2 howto http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml
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