23 replies to this topic

[Camaro]

Its unfortunate, but I dont like the new gentoo installer, I also dont like that the stage 3 is the only one that will work anymore, maybe its because im new with linux an particularly gentoo but I installed it to a socket 754 3200 nvidia nforce 3 board with a fx 5200 gfx card with very little trouble all things considered that was in early 2005 now I cant get it to install to my current system.

[Sphere]

I'm still in the konsole installation... but what's going wrong for you?

[Camaro]

Random install fail, sometimes right away sometimes after downloading stage once it went to setting up grub.

[Sphere]

For some reason, I can't move the Gentoo talk to a new thread. Sorry guys!

but could you give me an dmesg camaro? preferably on PM, to keep it clean here, or start a new thread

[Sphere]

To start the topic off

[Camaro]

seems you got it

[Sphere]

Yes, it gave me an error on my laptop, but on my desktop, all works ok...

Anyway, can you post up an error log of some sort?

[Camaro]

not at the moment, I redid my desktop quite abit since the last time I tried installing gentoo, I will get you something soon as I try it again, might be after the new yr though, busy this time of yr

[Sphere]

No problem... Just post again when you need help again

[brewin]

The Gentoo Installer sucks. A Stage 3 console installation is the only way to do it. Stage 1 and 2 are not supported anymore because they're basically pointless. With a Stage 3, you can get a system up and running in an hour and then run emerge -e system to recompile everything for your hardware. Easier and faster than a Stage 1, with the same results.

Anyway, forget about installing Gentoo for now and just try one of these Gentoo-based distros:

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/
http://vidalinux.com/

[Sphere]

though on my new system, I can't seem to boot it after base installation. The boot hangs after the io-scheduler, or I get an unreadable vga konsole.

Anyone got a clue? I know it's something with Grub setting the VGA/vesa, but at what setting? and does pci-e have any influence?

and it even worse seems Asus sucks for Linux....

*Edit:
http://www.sphere-de...nl/Image033.jpg

That's what my screen looks like when I boot Gentoo.... that's (as you might expect) NOT what I want. I'm desperately searching all the web for an answer. Anybody got a clue, maybe some vga or vesafb setting in Grub, maybe something I need to install before I officially boot the Gentoo?

[simon]

to get off topic ( any linux) I was wondering if theres any drivers for nvidia eithernet cards or would it be better to install a pci

[Sphere]

the nVidia drivers are base-supported. Basically, they're part of the intergrated nForce 2+ support in the kernel... so, they work out of the box so to speak

[m.oreilly]

brewin, on Dec 24 2006, 12:24 PM, said:

The Gentoo Installer sucks. A Stage 3 console installation is the only way to do it. Stage 1 and 2 are not supported anymore because they're basically pointless. With a Stage 3, you can get a system up and running in an hour and then run emerge -e system to recompile everything for your hardware. Easier and faster than a Stage 1, with the same results.

Anyway, forget about installing Gentoo for now and just try one of these Gentoo-based distros:

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/
http://vidalinux.com/

thanks for the links, brewin. i'm downloading the sabayon atm. can you do the enhanced system install that gentoo is famous for using the afore mentioned distros?

[m.oreilly]

well, i'm going in! just the live cd for now, but this looks cool (the italian one), so off for a reboot...