2004.0 1st Live-CD -- Testers needed

dkaplowitz · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject:

How has the testing gone in the last week? I've not tried it out b/c I don't have a machine to spare for this purpose (nor do I really have the time to do another install). But I'm curious to know how it looks/feels to the people testing. And if the dev team feels it's close to release time. Last I heard it was going to be released in Jan. Can we still expect it this month?

Thanks for any input.

Dave
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ledskof · Apprentice Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 209

What is the most important kernel for us to test? Should we just use the latest gentoo-sources?
I'm running 2.6.1_rc2-love1 on the system I've (using chroot) built gentoo2004.0 on so far. I started from stage1 this morning and I'm ready to choose a kernel now.

I'd rather use whatever is most important for testing. But I also had been under the hopeful impression that the next Gentoo release was going to use the 2.6 kernel. Am I wrong there?

---EDIT---
Per beejay I'm using 2.4. I'm just going to emerge gentoo-sources.

zhen

Hi all -
I have just uploaded Gentoo Hardened stages (1-3) to the mirrors for testing. You can find them in the same directory as the default stages - http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/stages/.

The stages are designated by the pie-ssp tag attached to them. All of the stages have been built using a modified gcc spec file installed by hardened-gcc which enables automatic IBM Propolice stack smashing protection and Position Independent Executable (PIE) linking. More information on what these technologies do can be found at the [url]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened]Gentoo Hardened[/url] project page.[/url]

The testing process is the same for these stages as the default ones:

1. Download the stage
2. Unpack, mount proc, cp resolv.conf
3. chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile, emerge sync
4. stage1 - bootstrap
stage2 - emerge system
stage3 - emerge some common programs, sanity check

To see if the binaries are being compiled correctly - just run file on the binary, the output should look like this:

file /usr/bin/less
/usr/bin/less: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped

Please report all bugs to zhen@gentoo.org. Thanks!

beejay · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject:

dalek · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject:

I would like to test too if it is not to late.

I could give it a real NEWBIE test. If I can, anybody can.

Let me know if you still need help.

Later

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beejay · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject:

dalek · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:

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dalek · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:02 am Post subject:

Can I order this from Gentoo. I have a really slow 26K connection. Downloading, weeeeellll, it sort of sucks, OK. :cry:

I would like to help but by the time I get it downloaded, it may not matter anymore. New version will be out by then.

Later

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langthang · Retired Dev Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 620

I am using http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml to install gentoo-2004.0. So far so good. I am at step 16.3 (using genkernel to) build the kernel . One thing I can see as a problem for a new gentoo user. Genkernel compile scsi device driver as Module. My boot partition is on a scsi device (BusLogic). My system will hang If I am not build the BusLogic device driver into the kernel. Is there a way genkernel detect which modules I am using (BusLogic, Promise, ...) for my boot partition and build it in the kernel. Or the guide should make a note about this.

pixie · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 305

I have tried out the most recent (as of yesterday when I downloaded it) stage1 tarball.

All bootstrapped and emerged fine with USE="-java" to save time as in the install doc and the bootstrap-2.6 script.

I used my current gentoo install and chrooted to a spare partition to install it.

athlon-xp 1700+ with the following CFLAGS.

-march=athlon-xp -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -ffast-math -falign-functions=4

and KEYWORDS="~x86"

pixie · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 305

One thing though.

If Gentoo is going to offer a bootstrap-2.6 script it would be usefull if portage would add the patch to make xfree compile with the 2.6 headers.

[sollution: using the 2.6 headers to build xfree-4.3.99.902 works]

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

Small report...
Installed from the latest 2.6 LiveCD and stage1 with nptl support enabled and no problems so far!

Steve

mantis · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 12:55 am Post subject:

Hi,

I ran bootsplash-2.6, but it only install 2.4.19 headers, is this correct?

So i modified the 2.6.0 linux-headers ebuild to allow building without passing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and did an emerge -pev world, it worked well until it got to util-linux which needed .12-r4 version, so i edited my --resume file to .12-r4 and it seemed to work. I have nptl enabled in the USE flag, but this is after I did stage1 and stage2 as i forgot to add it to the USE flag.

Will it all work out the same as just having nptl from the beginning?

pixie · Guru Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 305

the nptl use flag is for glibc.

Just re-emerge it with the new use flag added.

Psych0 · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:21 am Post subject:

Hey cool!

I'm doing a first time stage2 install of 1.4 on a spare box now. Odds are good that I'll screw it up, when I do I'll start over with the 2004 stuff!
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mukwuknuk · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 6:48 am Post subject:

If I understand correctly, a 2.6-based live CD is not required for testing; just the 2.6 stages (the location of which has already been made clear).

However, some folks seem to be booting off a 2.6 live CD, even though it's not essential. At least that's what I gather from some posted messages.

Sounds like fun..... where can this lastest/greatest live CD be obtained, may I ask?
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Tez218 · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Oxnard, CA

I just installed the 2004.0 on a reiserfs partition using the Stage3-x86-20040105.tar.gz and the snapshot portage-20040109.tar.bz2. I installed using a current Gentoo 1.4 install on my AthlonXP machine, but I set my make.conf to compile for i486, did not want to set specifics for my cpu. Used kernel 2.4.22-gentoo-r4 created by genkernel ( Im sure most newbies use this instead of trying to compile their own kernel ). Everything seems to work good, tomorrow I will emerge gnome. After I can see everything works, I will start a Stage2 install.

nichao · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 17 Location: Germany

I just set up a new Gentoo on my new harddisk from stage1-x86-20040105 using bootstrap-2.6.sh and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" as well as a NPTL-enabled glibc and latest mm-sources.

Only problems I've noticed were that iputils is emerged too early by 'emerge system'. It needs flex, autoconf and openssl, but doesn't seem to have them as dependencies in the ebuild. Another one was the also already mentioned inability to build xfree 4.3.0 with 2.6 headers for which I used given solution.

CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS:

mikeraach · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 168

I'm kinda confused...

The new livecds (2.6) are going to include these stages or not? By the name 2.6, I'd imagine that it will use the 2.6 kernel, but from reading this thread, the 2.6 kernel will not be supported (by gentoo) for a while.

Also, could I just chroot into a partition on my hd and install another version of gentoo while in my current one? Then just setup grub to boot from my 'new' install? Of course this wont be testing the new livecd, but it would test the new stages.

BTW, where is the thread for the testing of the new livecd?

nature · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Miami

I got a spare athlon-xp 2200 sitting around that needs a good workout. I'm going to compile with nptl and kernel 2.6. Will post results back.
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beejay · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:56 am Post subject:

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