New for Gentoo

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 11:57 am Post subject: New for Gentoo

I have Pentium 2 300Mz, 256 Ram with Adsl connection.

Do you think I'll be able to install/run this distribution on this mashine?
The Cpu is not too slow?
Many Thanks

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: New for Gentoo

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:08 pm Post subject:

Ok...i just have a less than a year RedHat6...7 experience so i need to know if the precces is not too difficult for me! No, I'm not afraid to try and to read the documentation

but you know...just for the info.
Many Thanks

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:21 pm Post subject:

Since you mention you're fairly new, and have used RedHat before, I'm going to assume you haven't compiled a lot of stuff from source.

So, with that said, when I say it will take "a while" to compile stuff, I mean a l o n g t i m e.

I recently installed Gentoo on a PIII 500 w/ 128MB of RAM. Compiling X and KDE 3 took over 10 hours to complete. Kernel compiles take (I think) 30 minutes or so to complete.

Other folks installing on slower machines have reported X/KDE compile times of over 24 hours.

Just to set your expecations about how long things should take.

--kurt
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DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:25 pm Post subject:

I'm not talking about how long it takes :oops:

Just if is too difficult for someone that never before installed linux "with hands" ( redhat does all by it self )

Many Thanks

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:33 pm Post subject:

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:54 pm Post subject: Setup

Hahahaha,
I started the setup ( I'm talking from another comp. ) and from the beginning it makes me feel a little small

After I was configured the eth0 I'm going to destroy my HD while tring to add the partitions :-)

pacman

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:00 pm Post subject: eth0

How can i be sure that the network is running?
I configured the eth0:
ifconfig my_ip_here netmask 255.255.255.0
then:
/sbin/ifconfig -a
and the result shows that eth0 is configured with ip and netmask but i wasn't found the lines: UP and RUNNING as discribed in documents
Thanks

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: eth0

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:20 pm Post subject: No ping results

"...Did you compile support for your NIC into the kernel? "

I just run the "ifconfig" command with the parameters and "/sbin/route add...."

What should i do?
Thanks

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:29 pm Post subject: Re: No ping results

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:41 pm Post subject: Ethernet100/10 ( intel )

Even i've printed it...
these are my steps:
1) modprobe eepro100 (and there was now error response.)
2) ifconfig eth0 my_ip netmask 255.255.255.0
3) route add -net default gw my_gateway netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
4) added the dns on resolv.conf
5) ifconfig -a ( i don't see the UP and RUNNING lines )

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:45 pm Post subject: i have eth0 and eth1

Ops...
It shows "eth0" and "eth1" but only for eth1 i saw the lines UP and RUNNING.
The problem is:
I have 2 netcards so how i'll remove the eth1 and leave the eth0?
Thanks

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Ethernet100/10 ( intel )

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:48 pm Post subject: Re: i have eth0 and eth1

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:51 pm Post subject: network cards

Well,
One is embedded to the mother board ( and is not working well sometimes so i can't remove it) and the second is EtherExpress100 pro

DArtagnan · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:54 pm Post subject: lsmod

I run:
# lsmod
Module size used by
eepro100 16944 2

klieber · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: network cards

DArtagnan · Posted: Wed May 01, 2002 5:41 am Post subject: From Bios

Thanks,
I made what i said ( removed from Bios ) and it's works just file.
Pacman