On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Duncan<1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> posted > 5bdc1c8b0908030725l402032d6l28d3869ee3f05...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:25:02 -0700: > >> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Lance >> Lassetter<lancelasset...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> >>> >>> Have you tried enabling evdev in make.conf under INPUT_DEVICES? >>> >>> i.e. in make.conf: >>> >>> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" >>> >> ??? >> >> How could he do this when he's trying to boot from an install CD? > > Hmm, mount the ISO using loopback, make the change, umount, burn? > > (He did say he got around it using SuSE instead of a Gentoo LiveCD, which > is what I did back in 2004 with Mandrake, as well. But I thought the > question was still interesting enough to answer. Just because it's an > ISO doesn't mean it can't be changed. =;^) >
Duncan, So I guess you are suggesting that someone doing a Gentoo install, and finding that the install CD fails to work, is then possibly going to modify the install CD? Beyond that what make.conf are we speaking about? As I asked over the weekend, and as far as I can tell, there is no make.conf on the install CD to modify. (With the keyboard we don't have because we're running USB unless this is a completely different installation on the same machine, or we're doing it on a different machine.) Maybe I'm underestimating INPUT_DEVICES but I thought that was only for xorg-server which isn't running when the install CD finishes booting is it? Even if the OP had done what you suggested, had enough knowledge of Gentoo to think about creating a make.conf file and placing "keyboard mouse evdev" in it, burned a new copy, and then rebooted, what changes about the environment that is running at that point? I'm really confused and I know this because you are, no joke here, one of my Gentoo guiding lights! Enlighten me! Please! Cheers, Mark
