[GLLUG] Gentoo 2006.0

[Caleb Cushing]

I got the portage one off the mirror using links and continued doing an
internet install. and it was no kernel of mine that paniced it was the
livecd's kernel. The first Gentoo I did was back on 1.4. I will agree that
support is better for amd64 that's why I converted however that doesn't mean
they aren't borking the disks... for the 2005.1 x86 release they borked the
pentium4 and athlon-xp tarballs so they weren't on the disk. I'm just glad
I'm not a n00b getting those problems I would have quit after the second
time. and as far as my experience with the kernel I did a presentation
(which I should have been better prepared for) on manually compiling the
kernel for gllug a few weeks ago. can't say I'm a kernel hacker so I have no
idea what that kernel dump the livecd gave me meant, I was hoping to be able
to reproduce, so I could report it, but no such luck. all I know about it is
it was related to IO, and I got several IO errors.

On 3/1/06, Florian Mettetal <falieson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IMHO, if your worried about your tarballs being corrupted wget them and
> md5 them. That is what I always did back in 2004.X days of installing
> gen2. Good luck on the penguicon server - as far as kernel panics go, dunno
> what your experiance level with nix is but gen2 is particularly touchy -
> don't put extra things in your kernel. Know whats in there, and know that
> your using it.
> Finally, as for gen2 borking another release, yah. At least the amd64 is
> supported a lot better when they first tried and most of the apps still
> compile when they see your use flags.
>
>
> On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <HarringM at michigan.gov> wrote:
> >
> > here is the thread for everyone....
> >
> > Well I normally don't use KDE or Gnome...its either fluxbox or
> > xfce4...so I'm inclined to use the smaller gtk apps...
> >
> > for those who want a quick Gentoo install you might want to check out
> > Korrora or Vidallinux( this uses the anaconda installer).
> >
> > >>> "Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide at gmail.com> 3/1/2006 3:26 PM >>>
> > yeah I think I notice that. is it that much better than kuruu or kentoo?
> >
> > which I believe do the same thing but are KDE QT apps instead of gtk.
> >
> > And GD for got to add the list again.
> >
> > On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington <HarringM at michigan.gov > wrote:
> > >
> > > you'll have to update your packages.keywords file as it is on
> > the  ~x86
> > > branch but its pretty handy...much like synaptic for debian.
> > >
> > >
> > > >>> "Caleb Cushing" < xenoterracide at gmail.com> 3/1/2006 2:51 PM >>>
> > > I've thought about it... but haven't yet.
> > >
> > > On 3/1/06, Michael Harrington < HarringM at michigan.gov> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > have you guys tried Porthole for emerging packages? It takes some of
> > the
> > > > guesswork out of what USE flags you might need.
> > > >
> > > > >>> "Caleb Cushing" < xenoterracide at gmail.com> 3/1/2006 2:41 PM >>>
> > > > no they haven't released an upgrade guide for the 2006.0 profile the
> > one
> > > > for
> > > > the 2005.x works though. I've already changed. I converted my laptop
> > to
> > > > native 64... all but the x86 is still on command line. I had 3
> > spot's
> > > > where
> > > > I got IO error's extracting tarballs from the disk. I suppose it
> > could
> > > be
> > > > the disk... but one caused a kernel panic. I got it installed
> > though.
> > > > seems
> > > > to be running fine. I don't have X yet I should soon. Seems they are
> > > > putting
> > > > the binarys on the disk we maybe should have waited to start
> > building
> > > our
> > > > penguicon server. They are going to have a KDE version too from what
> > I
> > > > read.
> > > > also hint for USE flags check out packages on this page
> > > > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/
> > > > here's what it says about flags for firefox
> > > > http://www.gentoo-portage.com/www-client/mozilla-firefox/USE
> > > > of course mozilla suite isn't the same as firefox but you can search
> > > > mozilla
> > > > too...
> > > >
> > > > anyways I bet our problem with the disks are related to QA borking a
> >
> > > > another
> > > > series of releases... I could be wrong mine could have been marring
> > on
> > > the
> > > > disk... those tarballs are sensitive. still the disk having a kernel
> > > panic
> > > > over anything... oh and gcc-3.4.4 is on the disks now. for all those
> > who
> > > > haven't upgraded and 3.4.5 became stable yesterdayish on x86.
> > > >
> > > > speaking of the box. Are we going to run firefox & thunderbird 1.5?
> > or
> > > > stick
> > > > to stable? I could ask pratt (the maintainer for gentoo) when he
> > thinks
> > > he
> > > > will be moving it to stable.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> Florian Mettetal
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