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WillsterV
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 Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject: Installing Gentoo from 16meg iso |
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Hi all,
I've started the installation off the 16meg iso, which I believe is the stage1 setup. I'm still unfamiliar with some of the terms so please bear with me.
I got through the install to the point of setting up the modules. However, I have a USB NIC (DLink DSB-650TX) which uses the pegasus module. It seems that module is no where to be found on the cd.
I found the module, but it's in .c form and I believe it needs to be .o. I'm not that familiar with compiling programs. When I tried to mount my floppy drive I wasn't able to do so. I'm installing Gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop so I think there may be an issue there, but am not sure where to look.
Question:
1) Can I use any pegasus.o file that I find on the 'net?
2) should 'mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' work on mounting the drive?
3) Since i'm on a laptop do I need to do some installation for the floppy drive to be detected?
I've been able to successfully install and run both Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody so I know the floppy drive works. I'm guessing there is something different in how Gentoo is installing to make it not easily accessible.
Thank you for any help you can offer.
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rac
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| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Installing Gentoo from 16meg iso |
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| WillsterV wrote: | | 1) Can I use any pegasus.o file that I find on the 'net? |
No. It would have to be compiled against the kernel on the boot disk, which is (I think) version 2.4.19-gentoo-r7, which is 2.4.18 + a bunch of patches.
| Quote: | | I've been able to successfully install and run both Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody so I know the floppy drive works. |
Do you still have either of those running on the machine, and do you have a spare partition in addition? If so, you will probably find it much easier to install from inside a running Linux environment as described in the alternative installation guide.
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therobot
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| Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| And when mounting the floppy, try adding the -t flag with the filesystem. |
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