CONRAD Install Guide 0.7.5 - (__DEPRECATED__)

enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I tried a new burn of the disc, same problem. Then I tried a CD-RW, same problem. Finally another burn of the disc and no CRC errors. However, it always hung on ACPI. So I edit the grub options when I boot and set acpi=off, but then it still would freeze. I played with various options all day, and the only way I could get all the way to the command prompt is with the option ramdisk=16384.

Yet even then, I get segfault options when trying to untar portage. I've been working all day and night, and I'm still in the beginning steps of the install.

I went to the IRC room, and while people were in the room, I got no response.
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seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

try running memtest86 maybe hardware problems?

carpman · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:06 am Post subject:

carpman · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:51 am Post subject:

Hello, ok found something that does not compile, anyone replicate it:

net-misc/nx-x11-1.4.0-r4 failed

enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I had all kinds of problems trying to boot from the LiveCD. I experimented, and eventually the only way I could get the LiveCD to boot was to change the grub options and put in acpi=off and ramdisk=16384.

I follow all the instructions with no problem, mount everything (proc included), chroot, and then I hit a brick wall.

I can't emerge anything. Emerge syslog-ng gives me an access denied error saying "open_wr /newroot/dev/tty1".

I exit out, and chroot back in, same problem. I reboot and start over, same problem.

Why is emerge looking for /newroot /dev/ is fine, and /dev/tty1 is there. But there is no /newroot anywhere I can find. Why is emerge looking for it? When I boot I briefly catch mention of /newroot being a tmpfs the LiveCD is supposed to set-up. I can't find it before or after chroot however. And after a chroot, it should be looking in /mnt/gentoo/dev, not /newroot/dev, right?

I'm really hoping I can find a solution to begin my install, but I've been checking the IRC room for 2 days and no one is ever there. Can someone please help me out? I want to pull my hair out.
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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I've been looking for help for a couple days now in the IRC rooms (#gentoo and #conrad-install) to no avail.

I can't emerge, so what I'm going to try and do is wget and manually download the source for syslog-ng, hotplug, coldplug, reiser4progs, libaal, etc and make them. Then I will download a kernel, apply patches manually, download the source for grub, and then hopefully I can boot to my hard drive and pray that emerge works then.
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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I just tried the Conrad install CD on another computer to make sure it isn't my craptop. Same problem. I run the install-part1.sh, chroot, and then I can't emerge anything. It's still looking for /newroot, which doesn't exist.

I'm pretty sure there is something wrong with the LiveCD, so I hope the new one comes out soon, and works. I've formatted all the boxes in the house, and none of them work, save for this last one now. My wife isn't too happy.
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seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

are you using the same cdorm on both computers? did you md5sum the iso? actually did cheater include md5sums in the directory.. anyways sounds like a problem with the cd as its not centeralized to the craptops hardware, try redownloading and burning the cdrom again, let us know whaty happens.

seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

Tiger683 · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

EDIT
carpman:

ok, i made a patch which fixes the bug, can you please test it, so i can evtl. submit it upstream?

1) overlay, unpack it into /usr/local/portage or whatever is your overlay, ebuild has suffix -r99 Manifest and digest inclued:
nx-x11-1.4.0-gcc4_overlay.tar.bz2

2) this is the patch alone, in case someone wants to take a look before it gets confirmed (devs?):
nx-x11-1.4.0-gcc4.patch
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Duki · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Germany

In 9.3

seren · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Posts: 448 Location: Wisconsin

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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

Hello everyone.

I was away for the weekend, sorry for all the late respones - I'm doing my best

Tiger683 - I will test that patches overlay in the installation, thank

LiveCD Errors:
I will address this,
I can confirm that there is indeed a /newroot directory

My assumption on this issue is ramdisk is 16xxx (not possitive on the exact value) well, the kernel compiled can only handle the maximum of 89xx, not positive on the exact value , Reason being, the 16,000 maximum ramdisk size caused me boot errors, for some reason - I can test again to confirm, but this is jus my experience.

NOTE: I will be using a new kernel configuration for LiveCD 0.2, but GRUB will remain over isolinux still, may cause some problems on laptops.

[i]The first LiveCD was the first release, it was quite experimental and ran a quite unstable kernel, but it works on probally 80% of Machines, the 20% that it wont boot on are probally laptops, I'm sure it boots better than 80% but it's just a guess.[/b]

Vipernicus, CFLAG Question
Advice: NO LDFLAGS, For best performance keep them stable

You won't get much (if any, probally a loss) performance gain - It is way more reliable, faster, and safer/more stable to use stable CFLAGS

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vipernicus · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

Duki · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Germany

Hi,

I followed the conrad install method and was quite happy with the performance and the way it worked until I installed kde and it freezes (actually, the entire system freezes, and there is no way of doing anything (Ctrl-C, tty switching, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).

Has anyone experienced this previously or has a solution to this?

Thanks for the support :wink:

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Edit:

I resorted to rebuilding kde-meta 3.5 rc1 (I originally used the stable branch kde-meta) ...
If by any chance you see no hope in this project, tell me now so I can start over with a gcc 3.4 (or whatever is 'stable') and reinstall --

Thanks

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enderandrew · l33t Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 731

I saw that GCC recommend no LDFLAGS, but in the GCC 4 and 4.1 beta threads, several people have commented that they rebuilt their entire system with GCC 4.x with LDFLAGS with no problems.
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rsulli55 · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 26

Hi, I'm trying to install with the Conrad livecd, but it does not have the right module for my ethernet card. I need module forcedeth, but when I do modprobe forcedeth, it says FATAL:Module not found. Is there a way I can get it? Could I move over the module from the Gentoo live cd to the Conrad one and reburn the iso? Or am I just out of luck? Thanks for any help.

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