A little puzzle...

Gullible Jones · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Dog Solitude

What I want: to install Gentoo with NPTL support on my new computer, as described here.

What I have:

- A Powerspec 1421 that doesn't like my floppy drive, or any drive/cable combination that I have (and yes I did set the BIOS to have drive A). It has a CD-ROM drive, but no CD burner. And no, I don't have a USB floppy drive or a USB pen drive.

- A system disk with Linspire on it. (This crappy excuse of a Linux-based operating system uses the 2.4 kernel.)

- A Damn Small Linux live CD. (This also uses the 2.4 kernel.)

Any way to pull this off?

Edit: Oh yeah, don't worry about how well I can understand the instructions. I'm not a programmer or a sysadmin, but I'm pretty comfortable with installing Gentoo from stage 1.

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:29 pm Post subject:

I'd say start installing Gentoo using a 2.4 (or 2.6 but without NPTL) so that you have a Gentoo system, then rebuild glibc with USE="nptl" or USE="nptl nptlonly" (only if you're already running a 2.6 kernel) from a booted Gentoo system.

adaptr · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject:

You can install Gentoo from pretty much any system that can connect to the Internet.
In your case, I suspect it would be mandatory to get a reasonably recent gcc and glibc to be able to compile with and for NPTL and 2.6 the first time round.
The kernel version is irrelevant - it's the gcc and glibc versions that matter.
Check those out and correllate with the instructions.
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Gullible Jones · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Dog Solitude

Ahh... Thanks.

(When I tried compiling it from within Damn Small Linux though, I got "Checking kernel version..." and "Error: to compile glibc with NTPL you must have kernel ? 2.6.5! Installation aborted." I had emerged linux26-headers as instructed.)

Edit: but you compile with Gentoo's GCC and glibc provided in the stage 3 package, no? And those are prefectly up to date...