small-gentoo X (for x86), gentoo-based derivative livecd

kernelOfTruth · Last edited by kernelOfTruth on Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:51 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi there,

I just wanted to announce the availability of "small-gentoo X" (for x86), "small gentoo"'s 10th release

for a mirrorlist - please scroll down to the end of this first post

this should make installation for you guys/girls using sis, marvell, nvidia & other sata-controllers easier (2.6.21-based)

this CD offers some goodies such as a GUI & beryl (only for nvidia-users, unless you get

aldo_a · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

Great work KernelofTruth!! Thanks a lot!

Just a question; Did you drop ext4 support from the kernel?? Or is it the new e2fsprogs (1.40) that don't have ext4 patches??
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Master Chef · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 25

Great feature set. It's what I've been searching for a long time.

bdm · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject:

Master Chef · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 25

Alright! Trying it out and using it well. Thanks a lot for:

Reiser4 support: I always seem to find the right CD, and then a lack of FS support on it.
X server: Yesss!! With all the time spent on my main computer compiling, i'm glad somebody recognized the need to go beyond links text browsing.
Xchat: Enough said.
i8k kernel module: I run into a compiler error every now and then while I'm away. It's mostly because these Dell laptops won't turn on their fans. Now I have fan control from within my chroot'd system.
Nvidia support: When I'm not using Beryl, it helps that my CPU isn't crunching on graphics.
Beryl: Sometimes I feel like I'm dumb for eye candy, and then I feel smart again when I have my windows organized over multiple desktops (shh ;o).
Ntfs-3g: Seems to work okay. Allows me to look up the keys to my wireless network.
Wpa-supplicant: Allows me to use the keys for my wireless network.
CD: Didn't have to go out and buy DVD-Rs. Or wait three days for it to download.

The worst problem is that I have to move that xorg config file to the right place. Boo hoo :roll:

. I'm loving this CD.

Lepaca Kliffoth

bubbl07 · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:18 am Post subject:

As always, KoT, your work is very much appreciated. Even with 2.6.18 kernels with jmicron support near ubiquitous now, I still tend to use your CDs.

Cheers.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:

@Master Chef:
good to hear, that you like it as much as I do

devsk · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject:

you should really be doing "eselect opengl set ati --dst-prefix=/etc/opengl" to make it work with read only mount (/usr is a link to /mnt/livecd/usr).

unionfs is a mess in 2.6.21, and its not going into 2.6.22 either. So, we need to wait till 2.6.23 maybe. Keep patching kernel till then.

micr0c0sm · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject:

Which version of paludis is installed?

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:16 am Post subject:

watch out

I seem to have confused root with user password on some releases of that CD so if you try to log on to root or user

try out 'user' or 'root' as password :roll:

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Kollin · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:31 am Post subject:

But what about amd64 release :roll:

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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:54 am Post subject:

Kollin · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:24 am Post subject:

AllenJB · Veteran Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 1285

You need to be very careful distributing stuff with pre-compiled binary kernel modules like nvidia-drivers. I believe you're not actually allowed to do this, but I could be wrong.

kamisama · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 41

Distribution: yes
Charge: no

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Hi,

i'm trying to install on a MSI P35 Neo. Tried all three alternate kernels that come with small-gentoo_x86-X.iso, but they all fail with the same error as the Gentoo 2007.0 CD:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Yay that worked! I've used a SystemRescueCd and booted from a old SCSI-CDROM. Thanks goodness i didn't trash it at eBay.

So i have my new Gentoo running but i still miss my burner (IDE-DVD connected to the onboard IDE).

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject:

probably - I don't have the marvell chipset so I can't tell for sure:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=marvell

latest commits are from the end of april - so there might not be much difference to 2.6.22

if your graphics card driver permits it, give mm-branch a try http://www.eu.kernel.org/patchtypes/mm.html
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xavier10 · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:05 pm Post subject:

Looks like a great CD. Hope it will let me install Gentoo on my new desktop.

Though, I cannot figure out the root password. Neither 'root' nor 'user' works. :cry:

Moreover, I try to run fdisk and cannot find which letter corresponds to my hard drive. With SATA hard drives, I was looking for /dev/sda or /dev/sdaX if I remember well, but here there is only /dev/sda, and it will not mount (maybe due to the password thing).
Please, help... :cry:

xavier10 · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject:

Frankly, why to put a password on a LiveCD, to begin with ? This is really too frustrating: I finally find a CD that will boot the machine (kudos for that), but then it will not let me do anything with it for no reason.