burning liveCD ?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject:

thecooptoo,

Thats been fixed for a while now. The big image has /lib/modules/... in two places.
Get a new download
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thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

i downloaded it approx an hour ago from the link on http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml takes me to eg

http://gentoo.osuosl.org//releases/x86/2008.0_beta2/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2008.0_beta2.iso which is 838MB

another attempt, the link takes me to http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/pub/gentoo//releases/x86/2008.0_beta2/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2008.0_beta2.iso which is also 838 MB
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject:

thecooptoo,

You need the one with -r1 in its name. Like this Other than not fitting on a CD, the big image works if you put it on a DVD

They are both on UK mirrors too
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thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

so is the link from the downloads page incorrect ?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

thecooptoo,

It looks like it. I've upated this bug which reported the original problem.
It was still open.
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thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

i downloaded the beta2_r1 iso (703 MB and a bit) and burnt it.
On booting from it i get a grub menu and then a load of messages
/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r5/modules.dep - no such file

i get to a command line , but have no network cards ( ifconfig -a just shows lo) a message saying there is no ALSA and X fails to start

is something missing from the liveCD ?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject:

thecooptoo,

There is a tracker bug in bugzilla ... if your issue is not there, please add it.

With modules.dep missing, no modules will auto load as modprobe will fail.
insmod will still work but thats a PITA.
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yngwin · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

Why not use the minimal cd or another livecd? (I prefer system rescue cd myself.)
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thecooptoo · Veteran Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 1353 Location: UK

having borked coreutils, i thought id start again, and i thought it would be quicker/easier with a liveCD install, that i could set off and leave .
(and it should work, shouldn't it ?)
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject:

thecooptoo,

Get a binary coreutils from tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org to suit your install.
Put it in your /
untar it there with the p option
Ignore the extra garbage at end warning.

You should be deb0rked.

Rebuild your own coreutils
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