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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

is the lenovo blessed (or cursed) with a uefi motherboard?
booting the mint livecd on usb was offered as a way to boot a linux system.
installing mint was offered as a way to establish internet connection.
Do you, corellon, now have an internet connection from the lenovo??
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is motherboard information.
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Motherboard
   Manufacturer   LENOVO
   Model   Lenovo (Socket FS1r2)
   Version   IdeaPad Z585
   Chipset Vendor   AMD
   Chipset Model   A55/A60M FCH
   Chipset Revision   00
   Southbridge Vendor   AMD
   Southbridge Model   A55/A60M
   Southbridge Revision   11
   System Temperature   44 °C
      BIOS
         Brand   Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
         Version   60CN09WW
         Date   04/26/2012


Update: The internet works, but only from windows 7, which I have just cloned from the stock drive to my ssd... Give me a minute to install mint.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The internet now works within the mint livecd. There was no need to install mint and I believe all I had to do to solve that issue was a simple reboot with the ethernet cable plugged in beforehand.

Now the question remains. How to install gentoo within a different operating system's livecd?
EDIT: I just want to know where to begin with this. I know you guys have said already to just start from chapter 4 in the handbook, but isn't it different from a livecd perspective? Please, once again, take into consideration that I have never done this before..


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

boot the mint cd to a gui,
open a terminal window in the mint gui
open a browser in the mint gui, open the gentoo handbook in the mint browser window, suggest arranging browser window and terminal window side by side.
as root (sudo -i) in the terminal window:
Code:
mkdir /mnt/gentoo

proceed as directed by the gentoo handbook from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?style=printable&full=1#book_part1_chap4 executing commands from the handbook in the terminal.
(repartitioning and installing a file system should remove any trace of a mint install)
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONAHUE wrote:
boot the mint cd to a gui,
open a terminal window in the mint gui
open a browser in the mint gui, open the gentoo handbook in the mint browser window, suggest arranging browser window and terminal window side by side.
as root (sudo -i):
Code:
mkdir /mnt/gentoo

proceed as directed by the gentoo handbook from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?style=printable&full=1#book_part1_chap4 executing commands from the handbook in the terminal.
repartitioning and installing a file system should remove any trace of a mint install


Thanks. This is more or less what I was looking for.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know mint, assumed it like ubuntu boots to a desktop.
if it does not boot to a desktop you will have to type commands into the mint terminal, presumably running a browser with the handbook open in it on the inspiron.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Solid_State_Disk may be worth a read
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How does this look so far? Haven't screwed anything up too badly yet, have I?
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mint ~ # df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/cow            2.7G  335M  2.4G  13% /
udev            2.7G  4.0K  2.7G   1% /dev
tmpfs           1.1G  980K  1.1G   1% /run
/dev/sdb1        30G  802M   30G   3% /cdrom
/dev/loop0      770M  770M     0 100% /rofs
tmpfs           2.7G   12K  2.7G   1% /tmp
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            2.7G  260K  2.7G   1% /run/shm
/dev/sr0        164M  164M     0 100% /media/Gentoo Linux amd64 20120621
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I have been thinking about the limited writes available to SSD's. I really hate that laptops have such limited number of drives.

Since the gentoo boot and swap partitions dont really need a ton of space (50GB~), wouldn't it be better, in theory, to install them to something like an sd card? Would that even be possible?

Update: Should I be worried about this?
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WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

boot at 50mb is usually plenty. 6 gb swap should hiberate with room to spare. I am no expert on hibernate. an external drive of some sort is certainly possible. using the card reader should work as long as driver exists. if you have a flash card handy see if mint sees it.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you got mint into a gui you can use gparted. and 'see' the disk layout.
if no gui
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parted -l
should show your partitioning.
if mint tried to install i presume it defaulted to gpt partitioning.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everything is smooth sailing from now (unless I run into another problem).

Thanks to everyone thats helped so far.
Thanks DONAHUE!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

buon viaggio!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have 4 partitions already and cant make anymore. They are called "SYSTEM_DRV" "Windows7_OS" "LENOVO" and "LENOVO_PART". They came stock on the machine. What can I do at this point?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

in your first post I took
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Note: the only thing I have done to the laptop that is not stock is replace the hard drive with an SSD, so Gentoo will be the first operating system installed to it.
to mean that you personally had physically removed the hard drive that came with the lenovo and replaced it with an ssd purchased separately. From your description of the partitions you've found I now guess that you exercised an option when making your purchase to have an ssd instead of a hard drive. In which case the maker/seller installed an oem copy of windows 7 and a lenovo software package and a lenovo recovery package on the ssd. If this guess is correct the maker/seller has probably used all the space on ssd which would prevent making any new partitions.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You are correct in that there is a discrepancy in the note i posted before and what I am saying now.
I believe I did, however, say somewhere in the thread that I cloned the original windows 7 os from the hard drive to my ssd. I may be mistaken though and may have left that out from the thread.
The reason I installed windows 7 was to possible make life easier by using something I was already familiar with, but apparently it is only making it worse.
You say that these partitions are only backups? Now, that I think about it, I already have this information (the two lenovo partitions) on two disks already. If these two partitions are not integral to the operation of the windows 7 os, do you think it would be fine to just delete them?
Also, I do have enough space - over 40GB of it... From what I have read in the handbook there is a limit of 4 partitions that can be made, more if you create an extended partition. I do not, however, wish to make an extended partition out of one of the lenovo paritions.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the limitation of MBR, not a problem with UEFI.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just downloaded the stage3 tarball without changing directory to the mountpoint. Is this a problem? If it is a problem, how can it be fixed?

Its part 5b in the handbook.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
mv /path/tarball /mnt/gentoo
where /path/tarball is replaced by the current location
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. I dont know my current location though. This is where Im at right now in the terminal:

mint ~ # ls
blank.gif
mint ~ # ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 Sep 9 19:34 blank.gif
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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cd /mnt/gentoo
does it work?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you made /mnt/gentoo and have cd'ed into it run
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wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3/stage3-amd64-20120621.tar.bz2
check that ls /mnt/gentoo shows
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stage3-amd64-20120621.tar.bz2


edited to add wget to command
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I caught my mistake. I didnt install the right thing, which explains the "blank.gif" file. Also, the directory that its in is this: "~". Didnt know that was an actual directory, my apologies.

I will attempt to delete whatever those 4 files were that I downloaded and download the right thing.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

links is hard to navigate; use wget procedure above
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

for portage snapshot use:
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cd /mnt/gentoo
wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/snapshots/current/portage-latest.tar.bz2

Code:
ls /mnt/gentoo
to check
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