Hi all,

I've been curious about Gentoo(stage1) for a while now, so I went ahead and
rebooted on the 2004.1 install cd, and had the Gentoo handbook on paper, in
front of me. I've now tried 6 times to install Gentoo, without succes.

Twice "emerge system" hung. Once the system froze, and once an error
occurred....."Pearl 5" was missing.
I once tried to install the gentoo-dev-sources, to get the 2.6 kernel, but
made a newbie mistake in installing/compiling, as the handbook covers 2.4
install procedures, and not 2.6. Once "emerge grub" failed, as it
claimed /boot was not mounted.....but it was. Once internetconnection just
dissapeared(immediately after running the mirrorselect
command)....modprobing, or any other of the internet setup advice given in
the handbook, did not help. And finally this morning I gave up, as a
recompile of the kernel(this time with MTRR support, as needed by the
nVidia graphics driver), resulted in my ne2k-pci module not loading, so
internetaccess was off.

I guess it is not supposed to be this hard, to get a stage1 system up and
running? I'm ready to try again soon ;o)

I feel that if I can get kernel recompiles right, I can get far with
trial-and-error alone. So far I've recompiled using the commands;

cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make menuconfig
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.4.26
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.26
cp .config /boot/config-2.4.26
reboot

when using the 2.4.26 vanilla-sources. But that disabled my working ne2k-pci
module, and did not include MTRR support, even though they were set right
in the .config file. Any tips on improving on this, would be very much
appreciated, as I guess the old kernel(s settings). were not overwritten
properly? or?

Any advice on how to avoid all the other issues I've experienced, is also
welcome ;o)

Kind regards,

Stig

Perhaps I should mention that I've been using SuSE for 2½ years now, and
feel I've outgrown it.....Gentoo's portage system, appeals to me.

Also; I have a pentium4 1,6ghz NW system, and use
CFLAGS="-march=penrtium4 -02 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" in make.conf.

/Stig

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:36:09 +0200, Stig Mogensen wrote:

> Perhaps I should mention that I've been using SuSE for 2½ years now, and
> feel I've outgrown it.....Gentoo's portage system, appeals to me.
>
> Also; I have a pentium4 1,6ghz NW system, and use
> CFLAGS="-march=penrtium4
-march=pentium4
>-02
-O2 [capital letter "O"]and NOT -02 [zero,null]
-pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" in make.conf.
>


a hint from newbie
stay booted in your suse and build it from that environment and paste
the errors if any

> -O2 [capital letter "O"]and NOT -02 [zero,null]

Wops.....but it worked anyway?

> a hint from newbie
> stay booted in your suse and build it from that environment and paste
> the errors if any

Thanks....but a 7th install attempt was succesfull. I'm now running KDE
3.2.2, and am quite pleased with my new system.

So much tweaking to do now...so little time ;o)

/Stig