Gentoo on Mobile Pentium 266 Laptop

Satyrinox

Can this be done ?
I have tried and tried to get my laptop to recognize the LiveCD
is there any livecd's for laptops , i would really like to have each and every one of my pc's including this laptop , Running Gentoo Linux!!!
im freaking out here trying to get it to recognize and start , but to no avail ,
So to anyone out there "HELP Me Please"
Rofl

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zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

There're no LiveCDs for laptops as far as I know... Maybe check if you have 'boot from CD' option enabled in your BIOS. Obvious, but good to check...

NewBlackDak · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:11 am Post subject:

I have to boot to a 2.6 kernel with "nodma" to get my Latitude CPi-D300XT to boot the live CD. Trying to turn on DMA with hdparm during the installation causes it to lock up. After I reboot to my own kernel dma/hdparm works fine. Not a speed demon, but it works.
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ewan.paton · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:58 am Post subject:

possibly not much help but you can get notebook to ide addapters for about £5 and plug it into your desktop, then install using a fast cpu but the flags for the laptop and then build the kernel and boot it and bingo gentoo on your laptop
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dfannin

I just installed Gentoo 2004.3 using the LiveCD on a Dell Latitude P 200MMX laptop (~1996). It went pretty well.

Here are some tips:

Use the x86 version of the LiveCD

boot up using the gentoo kernel with pcmcia and turn off dma for the cdrom:

boot: gentoo dopcmcia ide=nodma

I installed using the GRP packages - again, no major issues.

Make sure you add "dopcmcia" to your bootloader prior to rebooting to the installed system. You won't need the "nodma" option, but make sure that you turn off dma for your cdrom by editing the /etc/conf.d/hdparm .
take out the option "-d1" for all_args. you can set this for individual devices by using the hdx_args or cdromx_args settings.

I have gentoo running with a 2.6 kernel, gensplash, and the rest in about 3-4 hours by using the package cd with precompiled files. Very cool, considering time it would take to compile.

NewBlackDak

dfannin · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 4:58 am Post subject: more laptop updates

One additional note:

I found that the xorg GRP package installs, but doesn't run.

It appears that some packages may have been compiled for i686 machines, even though I had used the x86 package. It will fail with an illegal instruction error. Don't know exactly what happended, but a recompile over several days should fix. apache2, php, and other packages appeared to install and work correctly.

I only have 4GB of disk space and 128M of memory, so I hope it doesn't melt down.