[LIVEDVD] Gentoo RR4 & RR64 LiveDVD Thread

Rad · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:47 pm Post subject:

@timdaslayer: Well if your machine has got problems with the framebuffer, you probably have a bad/unsupported mainboard, and that means maybe you have to turn off ACPI and/or hardware autodetection and in some rarer cases dhcp too for it to boot. Oh and you can also try switching SMP off if nothing else helped. Even though it's a P4, sometimes this causes problems...

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playfool · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject:

I kinda share that sentament - my DVD drive blew up and I don't have access to a DVD burner - however my cd writer is working perfectly

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Tronic · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject:

Did you ignore exactly all of my requests in 2.60? Okay, not everything. GRUB seems to be included, at least. Dropping other DEs (from the boot menu, anyway) and keeping KDE (!!!) that takes 15 minutes to boot off the DVD is just stupid. XFCE-4, for instance, can do everything very well for a LiveDVD, and it can boot up in reasonable time. The disc also has no games, but still lots of free space, which is a shame because now it is not possible to test 3d acceleration easily (Doom3 or UT2004 demos shouldn't be too much of a problem).

The installer is somewhat buggy and a broken network will cause the installation to fail with no questions asked (no way to fix it and continue installation). I did the LiveDVD installation (copy the entire LiveDVD to the HDD), which has proven to be quite problematic (maybe because the installation was interrupted by that network problem). I'll try to post more status updates after I can get a kernel that actually works (2.6.13/2.6.14-rc* vanilla/gentoo/mm are all randomly crashing and/or booting very slowly and/or not supporting the Cardbus and/or reporting IDE errors).
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Tronic · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject:

Btw, it seems that you have just rm'ed lots of files without telling Portage about it. This leads to interesting trouble when trying to use/install/uninstall software. I think I'll do a fresh stage3 install instead of trying to fix this one.
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playfool · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject:

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I must point out, Ixnay, that you do not actually offer any LiveCDs despite your thread being littered with the term; and despite the overwhelming majority of google searches for Reiser4 LiveCDs leading directly or indirectly to your website.

Sorry to say this, but for a person like me, who actually wants a Reiser4 *LiveCD*, your past work (and web remnants thereof) on a Reiser4 LiveCD appears (most unexpectedly) to be a incredibly irritating barrier to actually finding a Reiser4 LiveCD.

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csawtell · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 6

I too would very much like to be able to install off a CD. Not so much for the reason that I have no DVD drive, but because of the bandwidth. I live in New Zealand, and the monthly ration is 10GBytes. It seems silly having to d/l about 2.5 Gigs on BitTorrent thus using half my monthly ration when a very large portion of that is unused.

Please could you consider doing a more minimalist CD with all the extra drivers - I love Reiser4, it should be in the mainline kernel by now - but fewer application programs?
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greyskies · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 6

I have read everything I can, as a noob, before posting here. I have tried and tried to install 2.60 after a LiveDVD boot, and no matter what, it will not start. I can boot, I can use many of the apps off the DVD after boot, and some will not start, as the icon goes "POOF" and disappears (does not say POOF, just used for effect here).

When I click on Install to Disc, I have tried to use the Copy all to HD, and I have tried to use the Stage 3 option. No matter what, after entering all of the required informatiion, wihtout regard to the method (Stage 3 or Copy ALL), the box springs up on the screen that it is PREPARING THE DISK, and then nothing. It will stay that way for hours or at least a full day once. I can still use other apps, so the distribution is not freezing, but there is no further progress with regard to the install.

I do not presently have a distribution installed on my newly built PC. I need HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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deepc · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 1

I have the same problem with the installer, doesn't proced after entering the informations.

How about manual installation, is there any difference to the normal gentoo installation?

greyskies · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 6

If you could, please advise as to how you could proceed with a normal installation. When my pc boots, it goes to the screen with the various boot options for Live, whether SMP, VESA, etc.

I would have no issue with trying to install manually, like the Handbook for Gentoo provides, if that is what it takes. Not sure how to do that with this DVD.

Also, did not state this earlier, but I can only login as "tecnico" with or without password of "tecnico".
Root user is not allowed to login as root. I wonder if that is a symptom that would assist lxnay (sorry if I spelled his username wrong) to determine why this installation process is not working for us?

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actually this might not be much of a help but i have 200mb of space which i can help you with with unlimited bandwidth, so if u need it just let me know.
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greyskies · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 6

Sorry for this double-posting. Deleted body of message, as it follows in the next posting.

greyskies · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 6

If you want stage3 or DVD to HD install and you haven't any unsupported (like intel i915) xorg video driver, boot using the first option, then use Install on Disk. If you want to follow gentoo handbook, well, why not?

Are you suggesting that I use the Stage 1 Option (I believe that is the first option)? I would prefer to use your
installation process rather than a clean installation off of the DVD, but if that proves necessary, well, I guess I will
have no choice at that time. In the interim, if that does indeed prove necessary, how do I proceed to get to the
command line as root user in order to accomplish this?

If you are referring to initial boot screen, please note that this is the boot process I have been using, not VESA,
Genuine, SMP, etc. If this is the meaning of your comment above, I am even more confused as that is what I have
been doing without any success, other than getting to the PREPARING DISK screen.

root login is disabled, but if you d/l from www.lxnaydesign.net, 2.60 patch 2, (and read its changelog), you'll get root login enabled out of the box.

I cannot accomplish this as I do not presently have a linux box running. I am using my kids pc at the moment,
loaded with XP Home(wrecker). I do not have the knowledge with which to run the patch against the DVD ISO in
the Windows XP environment. If you could provide me with step by step instructions, I could most definitely try
that, then burn the patched file to another DVD.

Thankfully,

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