Gentoo: 10 years compiling - Testers for liveDVD enter here

VinzC · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:25 am Post subject:

Hi guys.

I've just downloaded Gentoo 10.1 AMD64 and I'm impressed

! Great LiveCD^WLiveDVD.

I've a few comments though -- don't know if they've already been made. First I've run the DVD inside a KVM machine (1GB virtual RAM) and I must admit it's rather slow to boot. Is some support for KVM guest possible at that stage? Second I think it'd be cool to add a few shortcuts in Konqueror's favourites instead of a blank list.

Just my 2¢.

I'll try on real-life machine later on.

Keep up the work guys!
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johnny99 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject:

I tried to download the iso from the link below, but the site says the i
http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-10.0_pre20090926-1952/amd64/
bounces me to:http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/releases/amd64/10.0_pre20090926-1952/
and the iso is:

comprookie2000 · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject:

Use 10.1
http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-10.1-livedvd/amd64/
More info;
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20091023-livedvd-10.1-announcement.xml
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likewhoa · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:54 pm Post subject:

iplayfast · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:13 am Post subject:

I've found a couple of things, and I don't know if it is just my hardware or is a bug.

First, I only get one console window and no X windows unless I use the no frame buffer option. I've only got X working once, and I suspect that it was when I used the no framebuffer option.

Second, the CD seems to be read over and over again while the system is just sitting there. I don't know what it's reading.

My system is a Toshiba Tecra laptop, with an nvidia graphics card.
Does anyone else get this as well?

ekko · n00b Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 19

Pryka · l33t Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 610 Location: /dev/null

Sorry for my eng. im from Poland

I got the 10.1 release and i got a problem, the keyboard and mouse are not responding when the liveDVD load in 100%

I've got wireless Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 connected to USB port

Same issue in latest minimalCD...

Pryka · l33t Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 610 Location: /dev/null

The solution is to unplug and plug again keyboard to usb... work like a harm

mister_playboy · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

I can't download the .iso for either the 64- or the 32-bit versions from any of the mirrors.

In every case, the download "starts" but then will not proceed. I've tried Firefox, Opera, and wget... same behavior in all of them. I can download all of the other small files located on the mirrors normally, and my network is working just fine in every other way.

What could possibly be wrong? :?:

Is there a torrent available? I have 50GB of free space on my computer... I use Ubuntu 9.04.

slackline · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Unable to download LiveDVD

mister_playboy · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

likewhoa · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: ATTENTION 10.2 in the works

As we build the new Gentoo 10.2 release media we are looking for more package suggestions. Please make sure you have looked over the package list located at http://omploader.org/vMmdodw before making any new suggestions. Make your suggestions in the "Category/Packagename USEFLAGS".

The 10.2 image should be available in the coming week so stay tune. P.S This image will come with a kernel that supports reiser4 and aufs plus support for staging drivers for those with newer wireless cards i.e ralink and such.

We hope that this livedvd will be unique in that you'll be able to use portage inside of it with the help of aufs. More features will come as time progress.

pilotbrian0 · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

I can't get the LiveDVD to load properly on my ATI ALL-IN-WONDER X800XT.

I have a VGA monitor, which as I have come to understand, ATI sees the VGA port as the secondary card.

The DVD boots fine with nox, but I cannot configure x to work properly no matter what I do.

I've had gentoo installed before several years ago, but never bothered installing x.
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desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 7449

Merged the preceding post.

comprookie2000

pilotbrian0 · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

Tried with the vesa driver both with and without frame buffer. No luck.

I think it's trying to go out of range of what my monitor can display, even with me forcing it to 1024X768 32bpp 60Hz
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zmir · n00b Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Poland

comprookie2000 · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject:

The artwork is here now.
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wildmanne39 · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2010 Posts: 49

Hi, this started up very slow in virtualbox, but is worked fine after it finally loaded. I was wondering is there a way to install it from the live dvd like you can ubuntu? Thank you for all your hard work.