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Gentoo

Postby viking60 » 29 Mar 2010, 19:24

I am installing it right now on my laptop- I'll let you know how it went!
Finished with locales.
Configuring kernel.......
Compiling............
Puh I tell you guys - this is really time consuming...........
Finished - and nothing works :D
Well got the keymap up and running so I can work on............. Have a running system now without gui
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Re: Gentoo

Postby dedanna1029 » 30 Mar 2010, 03:22

Did you take a check of the Gentoo tutorial to install?
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Re: Gentoo

Postby viking60 » 30 Mar 2010, 12:05

Oh yes!!! You can't pull this one out of your back pocket. I am reading and reading and reading:) That is the good thing with this one I am actually learning something. I think I have learned what I can with Mandriva (there is always more to learn - but no source of information when you reach a certain level). Tried arch and fixed that. And finaly Gentoo. If you nail that one, you know something about Linux. Looks like I am gooing to succede with the virtual box install too:)
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Re: Gentoo

Postby viking60 » 30 Mar 2010, 21:50

Everything is working just fine now except the GUI, not sure I need it though.
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Re: Gentoo

Postby b1o » 30 Mar 2010, 23:52

Got everything up and running the Xserver starts and i get gui, the keyboard and mouse doesn't work in X yet but it's only some xconf not far from getting to installing gnome an i will have a complete gentoo install ^^
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Re: Gentoo

Postby viking60 » 30 Mar 2010, 23:53

Yeah right - copied my files did you? :mrgreen: What input device do you have in /etc/make.conf ?
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Re: Gentoo

Postby b1o » 30 Mar 2010, 23:57

lol.. no you don't have the Xorg-server running do you?

I've got the picture going, now it's tweaking time and then gnome time... but first bedtime
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Re: Gentoo

Postby dedanna1029 » 31 Mar 2010, 00:36

I think I now know what I want to install on my other drive... hhmmm... at least it's something to consider. If I'm going to do distros with source installations anyway, then I should consider this one at least.
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Re: Gentoo

Postby viking60 » 31 Mar 2010, 01:42

Yeah It sure would be nice if we could help eachother out
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Re: Gentoo

Postby dedanna1029 » 31 Mar 2010, 02:08

Yeah. Just need to get feeling better so I can lift this thing and tear it down to see what's up with the dvd drive.

Edit: Wait, my son's coming down this evening, and he's a whiz at this stuff (I taught him :D) - maybe I could get him to help me with it.
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Re: Gentoo

Postby viking60 » 31 Mar 2010, 20:43

Still struggling along here, now my Internet connection is gone so i can't download the important stuff....
Booted from the cd (where the inernet connection works) and chrooted in to my environment to download and compile xorg-server... Looking good again.....
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Re: Gentoo

Postby dedanna1029 » 01 Apr 2010, 04:31

Well, if I can feel just a tad better, well, even if I can't...

I have a 3-day weekend this week. Will be on furlough on Friday (the governor here has mandated due to state cutbacks that we each take a one-day unpaid furlough a month, it's fine, I'm cool with it), so I'll have time to give the Gentoo a try this weekend. Once I can get 'er going, I'll be able to help you out more.
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