Hi,
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:22:56 -0400 "Walter Dnes"
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> Now that I have a working keyboard and a busybox shell, I'm trying
> to mount a USB key. I did...
>
> mknod /dev/sda b 8 0
> mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
>
> ...inserted a USB key, and tried mounting it. dmesg indica
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> no need, just download the slax modules. Slax is great like this -
> especially if you install it on a cdrw, you can keep appending modules
> at later times until the cd fills up, no need to re-burn the whole lot!
sorry, scrub that, I don
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Mick wrote
> You may want to try the nodma kernel option to get your CDROM recognised.
Didn't help
> Also, the latest Knoppix CD/DVD may have hardware drivers that fair
> better than the Gentoo LiveCD. In my travels I have found that
> going around th
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 09:34 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote
> >
> > > b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised.
> >
> > No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See
> > http://www1.ca.dell.com/con
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:16:42AM +0200, b.n. wrote
>
> > Why a limited shell? The gentoo livecd does not have those
> > software? Or are you into a busybox or something?
>
> After the boot (which I presume is done via BIOS) the install program
> ca
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:16:42AM +0200, b.n. wrote
> Why a limited shell? The gentoo livecd does not have those
> software? Or are you into a busybox or something?
After the boot (which I presume is done via BIOS) the install program
can't find any drives (CD or DVD or HD). So it can only gi
Walter Dnes ha scritto:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote
> One problem down and one to go. I can get a limited shell. It
> doesn't have "lspci" or "fdisk". I want to see what shows up with
> "lspci -v" and "fdisk -l". I have a floppy if that helps.
Why a limited shell?
On Sunday 26 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote
>
> > b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised.
>
> No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See
> http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops_inspn?c=ca&;
>cs=cadhs1&
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:37:52AM +0100, Mick wrote
> b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised.
No, it's *NOT* a laptop. See
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/desktops_inspn?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs
Last minute update... finally found somethin
Mick ha scritto:
> FreeSBIE,
This is a FreeBSD live cd. Is it possible to install Gentoo from FreeBSD??
> b)Plugging in an external keyboard, which is hopefully recognised.
As for the keyboard, I'd try booting with "clock=tsc" option. I had a
"letters repeating" problem solved that way on an ol
On Saturday 25 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Sean wrote
>
> > You could always install via a knoppix livecd, since knoppix seems to
> > be the best around for "odd" hardware. There's really nothing special
> > about the gentoo livecd as far as being abl
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Sean wrote
> You could always install via a knoppix livecd, since knoppix seems to
> be the best around for "odd" hardware. There's really nothing special
> about the gentoo livecd as far as being able to install gentoo.
Same old same old. Gentoo and Kn
You could always install via a knoppix livecd, since knoppix seems to be
the best around for "odd" hardware. There's really nothing special about
the gentoo livecd as far as being able to install gentoo.
Walter Dnes wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:24:02AM +0100, Mick wrote
Could you try pa
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:24:02AM +0100, Mick wrote
> Could you try passing to the kernel the keyboard parameter at
> this stage? I am thinking of something like:
>
> gentoo keyboard=gb or keyboard=41, or whatever.
There don't seem to be any such parameters. I did read through the
file /usr
On Friday 24 August 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I got a shiny new Dell Inspiron from the "PC fairy". Windows Vista
> works OK (at least good enough for Windows). It does not want to be
> formatted. I insert the latest minimal install CD, and things start
> off OK at the beginning of the boot pr
I got a shiny new Dell Inspiron from the "PC fairy". Windows Vista
works OK (at least good enough for Windows). It does not want to be
formatted. I insert the latest minimal install CD, and things start
off OK at the beginning of the boot process. *THE USB KEYBOARD WORKS OK
AT THE BEGINNING*
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