Gentoo: 10 years compiling - Testers for liveDVD enter here

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likewhoa · Post by **likewhoa** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:29 pm

VikingB wrote:I have used the DVd on two different PC's and also re-burned the ISO . Same problem .
See here the messages ( picture from the screen) :
http://www.culbutte.be/content/gentoo-1 ... omment-422

please try it on a usb stick or hard drive.

comprookie2000 · Post by **comprookie2000** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:35 pm

You may have received a corrupt image, from the download or something else. There will be a new image to download soon, so I would try the next iso when it becomes available

VikingB · Post by **VikingB** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:43 pm

It was indeed my thought as well. I had re-downloaded the same but exactly with the same effect . Stops at the same place .
I shall wait till the next iso .

likewhoa · Post by **likewhoa** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:08 pm

VikingB wrote:It was indeed my thought as well. I had re-downloaded the same but exactly with the same effect . Stops at the same place .
I shall wait till the next iso .

did you confirm md5/sha1 sums?

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:40 pm

Hi,

I just tried to boot a PowerBook (intel) with the USB stick, but it didn't see the stick (in the boot volume menu I reached by pressing alt during boot). How can I get it to boot from the stick?

likewhoa · Post by **likewhoa** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:28 pm

ArneBab wrote:Hi,

I just tried to boot a PowerBook (intel) with the USB stick, but it didn't see the stick (in the boot volume menu I reached by pressing alt during boot). How can I get it to boot from the stick?

The hybrid mode is not available on all bioses, make sure your system allows booting from a usb device.

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:08 pm

I've been playing around with KVM lately, I'll give this a try in that. (and then maybe use it on some of these old boxes I have lying around)

ilyatau · Post by **ilyatau** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:11 pm

One question, from this livedvd can I install gentoo with visual installer on my pc?

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:27 pm

First complaint I have about it: as soon as you log in KDE floods you with indexing notices and runs like molasses for several minutes. Is there any point to having all that crap loaded on startup on a LiveCD?

comprookie2000 · Post by **comprookie2000** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:03 am

LiveDVD (released Oct 4, 2009)
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml

likewhoa · Post by **likewhoa** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 2:05 am

Ant_P wrote:First complaint I have about it: as soon as you log in KDE floods you with indexing notices and runs like molasses for several minutes. Is there any point to having all that crap loaded on startup on a LiveCD?

that has been removed.

EDIT: thread topic links updated to point to better sources. Download these

linked67 · Post by **linked67** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:51 pm

I have copied the livedvd on a liveusb with: dd if=.... of=....
I want to use emerge but the system is mounted in read only. How can i change this ?

NuGearz · Post by **NuGearz** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:16 pm

likewhoa wrote: You missed 7 very important and I need log for 11, go back and do 7 then try again.

I'm lost on this step. What do I need to do with .config or genkernel?

comprookie2000 · Post by **comprookie2000** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:33 pm

NuGearz wrote: I'm lost on this step. What do I need to do with .config or genkernel?

If you would like to learn how to compile your own kernels pappys guide has helped many;
http://62.3.120.141/~pappy/
http://62.3.120.141/~pappy/working.html
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml

NuGearz · Post by **NuGearz** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:46 pm

comprookie2000 wrote:
NuGearz wrote: I'm lost on this step. What do I need to do with .config or genkernel?
If you would like to learn how to compile your own kernels pappys guide has helped many;
http://62.3.120.141/~pappy/
http://62.3.120.141/~pappy/working.html
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml

so I need to emerge gentoo-sources and make menuconfig? I've built kernels before, but just wanted to make sure this is what i need to do. I've seen pappy's configs, but haven't played with them yet.

I've yet to get my stinking bcm4312 to work right but that's another thread that i haven't started... Still just learning how the nix world rolls as compared to the Windows world which my friends and co-workers agree I'm a somewhat a guru.

So forgive any ignorance

likewhoa · Post by **likewhoa** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:40 am

NuGearz wrote:
comprookie2000 wrote:
NuGearz wrote: I'm lost on this step. What do I need to do with .config or genkernel?
If you would like to learn how to compile your own kernels pappys guide has helped many;
http://62.3.120.141/~pappy/
http://62.3.120.141/~pappy/working.html
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml
so I need to emerge gentoo-sources and make menuconfig? I've built kernels before, but just wanted to make sure this is what i need to do. I've seen pappy's configs, but haven't played with them yet.

I've yet to get my stinking bcm4312 to work right but that's another thread that i haven't started... Still just learning how the nix world rolls as compared to the Windows world which my friends and co-workers agree I'm a somewhat a guru.

So forgive any ignorance

the easy way is

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# emerge genkernel
# genkernel --menuconfig all

good luck

linked67 wrote: I have copied the livedvd on a liveusb with: dd if=.... of=....
I want to use emerge but the system is mounted in read only. How can i change this ?

The livedvd is read-only for a number of reasons but the biggest is that squashfs setup in genkernel is read-only and the old unionfs method is broken. I will be working on a patch for gentoo-sources and genkernel to include aufs support so that you can use portage on all the release media.

comprookie2000 · Post by **comprookie2000** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:15 am

likewhoa wrote: The livedvd is read-only for a number of reasons but the biggest is that squashfs setup in genkernel is read-only and the old unionfs method is broken. I will be working on a patch for gentoo-sources and genkernel to include aufs support so that you can use portage on all the release media.

Oh Wow, now that would be sweet

leoha · Post by **leoha** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:39 pm

LiveDvd from here

>>keeping default keymap
>>making tmpfs for /newroot
>>looking for cdrom
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda1
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda2
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda5
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda6
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/sdb1
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/sdb2
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/hda1
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/hda2
>>attempting to mount media:- /dev/hdc
>>media found on /dev/hdc
>>detecting foot device...
>>detecting lootype...
>>mounting squashfs filesystem
>>copying read-write image contents of tmpfs
cp: read error: input/output error

comprookie2000 · Post by **comprookie2000** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:54 pm

leoha wrote:LiveDvd from here
cp: read error: input/output error

I too get errors with livedvd-amd64-multilib-10.0.iso I think there will be a 10.1 to fix them.
Try LiveDvd from here
and boot gentoo64.

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:31 am

leoha wrote:>>copying read-write image contents of tmpfs
cp: read error: input/output error

Just to rule out horses, did you verify the checksums?

ottembomb · Post by **ottembomb** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:14 am

Downloaded the .iso last night and am able to boot OK... but i've several problems.

1) resolution through default X session reports as 1440x900 - monitor reports as 1280x1024 - 2nd monitor not detected at all
2) absolutely no networking support - net-setup eth0 / eth1 returns no errors, but ifconfig lists only net.lo
3) so I try to modprobe the forcedeth module for my 780i mobo and get this error "FATAL: Error inserting forcedeth (/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko): Invalid module format.
Out of curiosity, I try various modules of all sorts, networking and otherwirse - all return the invalid module format ...

what'm i doing wrong?

comprookie2000 · Post by **comprookie2000** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:24 am

ottembomb wrote:Downloaded the .iso last night and am able to boot OK... but i've several problems.

1) resolution through default X session reports as 1440x900 - monitor reports as 1280x1024 - 2nd monitor not detected at all
2) absolutely no networking support - net-setup eth0 / eth1 returns no errors, but ifconfig lists only net.lo
3) so I try to modprobe the forcedeth module for my 780i mobo and get this error "FATAL: Error inserting forcedeth (/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko): Invalid module format.
Out of curiosity, I try various modules of all sorts, networking and otherwirse - all return the invalid module format ...

what'm i doing wrong?

You are not doing anything wrong. Which iso ?
If it is the livedvd-amd64-multilib-10.0.iso and you downloaded this because you have a 64 bit machine there is a problem with the iso and it is in the process of being updated. In the meantime you can download:
livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-10.0.iso
and boot with the option gentoo64

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:36 am

likewhoa wrote:The hybrid mode is not available on all bioses, make sure your system allows booting from a usb device.

Thanks for the Info! I'll try it with a DVD once I get back there (in two weeks or so).

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:58 am

likewhoa wrote:Use this
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xorg.conf
Good luck!

I tried it, and I also tried using the version which runs my main Gentoo, but it didn't work.

I get the feeling, though, that it might be due to damaged blocks on the USB stick, since it now complained that it couldn't find extensions like radeon, though lsmod | grep radeon showed it.

ottembomb · Post by **ottembomb** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:47 pm

comprookie2000 wrote:
ottembomb wrote:Downloaded the .iso last night and am able to boot OK... but i've several problems.

1) resolution through default X session reports as 1440x900 - monitor reports as 1280x1024 - 2nd monitor not detected at all
2) absolutely no networking support - net-setup eth0 / eth1 returns no errors, but ifconfig lists only net.lo
3) so I try to modprobe the forcedeth module for my 780i mobo and get this error "FATAL: Error inserting forcedeth (/lib/modules/2.6.30-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/net/forcedeth.ko): Invalid module format.
Out of curiosity, I try various modules of all sorts, networking and otherwirse - all return the invalid module format ...

what'm i doing wrong?
You are not doing anything wrong. Which iso ?
If it is the livedvd-amd64-multilib-10.0.iso and you downloaded this because you have a 64 bit machine there is a problem with the iso and it is in the process of being updated. In the meantime you can download:
livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-10.0.iso
and boot with the option gentoo64

Thanks! I was using the amd64 only .iso... Downloading thy hybrid as we speak!

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