installing onto a pentium 1 laptop

sehwoo · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 4

i recently got a pentium 1 laptop which doesn't have an ethernet port or any kind of internet thing. when i boot from my gentoo cd (which is a Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD), my laptop just reboots.

Cuardin · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject:

Can you say anything about where /exactly/ it reboots?
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sehwoo · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 4

i put the disk in. the laptop boots from the disk. then i see "boot:" so i press enter. it loads the two stuff. and because my laptop is weird (just like my desktop) it says that i gave an undefined video number and to press space to continue anyway. so i do press space. then my laptop reboots. basicly, it reboots within 10 seconds of booting up linux

dmartinsca · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject:

at the boot prompt try entering gentoo-nofb

sehwoo · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 4

ok. i typed gentoo-nofb. it went up to "Ready." then rebooted.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:

sehwoo,

You must use the install-x86-minimal-2006.0.iso CD. The others are all made for an i686 class CPU.
The pentium 1 is a i585 class CPU. You will need to do a network based install as there are no precompiled binaries for you.

You must fetch the stage 3 tarball with i586 in its name, not i686 too.

There are other install opions if you have a gentoo install on another PC, or indeed any other Linux installed elsewhere.
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sehwoo · n00b Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 4

i have two computers with linux on them. debian has internet but my gentoo doesn't have internet.

the only problem that i would have on network installing is that my laptop doesn't have an ethernet port or wireless card.
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