eth0 as firewire

maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

hello guys I'm dual booting with a macbook.
I'm in the live cd but cant setup the network

I tried the net-setup script on eth0 but nothing happend

I tried

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject:

Use a different livecd to install from, and check here for more info.
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maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

thanks for the reply

i tried with 2 minimal cds...
my first attempt was with amd64 because somebody told me that
my core2 duo was 64 bit capable...

that was when i did my first post.

Next i tried with an x86 2007 minimal cd....
and still could not start the network

Tornmorals · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 13

I be leave he means use something like a Knopix or Ubuntu live CD. The Gentoo minimal is just because it's convenient, small, fast and fit's most peoples needs for installing Gentoo. But it can be installed from almost any live cd. All Core 2's are 64 bit. If you plan on installing a 64 bit system you'll have to grab a 64bit live CD (you cant chroot into a 64bit system from a 32 bit one).

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

Systemrescuecd is a good one - has a 64-bit kernel too. Plus, I think it has your drivers... AFAIK.
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maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

so does this mean that it is a problem in the minimal cd?

Meaning that I cannot install gentoo on my macbook?

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject:

You can install gentoo from any linux livecd.

Use sysresccd.

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maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

where can I get this live cd at?

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Have fun!
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maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

should I follow the handbook while installing this

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject:

Yep!

Oh, and BTW, you may consider using the funtoo stage tarballs instead of the standard ones/ You'll get a standard gentoo system, but the tarballs are more up-to-date. Less building, and you won't hit problems like the expat bug.

http://www.funtoo.org/

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maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

I know im being a little anoying but
will I have a legit gentoo version(same as everybody else) in my computer...or
will i have something similar because I am a
fairly new in gentoo and dont want to have problems in the future.

I want to have what everyone else has so that they can help me if i have problems..

I do appriate ur help...
Im downoloading the powerPC (Mac) version

poly_poly-man · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

You'll have the same as everyone else.

Daniel Robbins (the original creator of Gentoo and (AFAIK) the head of the Gentoo Foundation) made these stages up the same exact way the official stages are created - starting with a legit gentoo install and tarballing up the needed files.

My last few gentoo installs have all been using these.

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maldojr88 · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 53

ok so i went to the page you gave me, went under downloads
and then downloaded the version powerPC (Mac)

I used nero to burn the ISO ( I am confident that I know how to copy iso's)

when i booted from the cd, I got
Missing Operating system

I downloaded it twice to see if maybe it was a download problem.
I burned it numerous times...

I tried the md5sums and I got and Input/Output error
correct me if I am wrong but i did md5sum after i had burned the iso

so where do I go from here?

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: