Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1289 from 2003/2/25
From: binaryriot
@GK_LKA:
when you have downloaded the universal-install and the packages cd for your processor then you're almost fine for the start.
but you'll encounter basically 3 major problems when you want to install from CD:
1. you can only use stage3 when you want to install directly from CD
2. it's _not_ possible to build a pegasos-comaptible kernel when just using data from CD. YOu have to download around 50MB kernel sources + benhpatches + pegasos patches manually (with "emerge", see handbook)
3. it's also a bit problematic to install KDE with the files from the CD (you need to emerge one smaller lib directly from the net, around 1MB or so).
But else you really can learn a lot by installing gentoo.
And when you install the kernel then make sure to dissable any unrequired stuff (e.g. all that powermac support stuff), else it can happen that the kernel can't build properly. Best is to make a list what's inside your pegasos (chips etc.) and then go step-by-step every option in the kernel config.
But when you read the PPC-Install handbook from net (gentoo.org) then you have already a very good documentation, except the parts i mentioned here which are/were not in the manual).
@dholm:
even with stage 3 just 30-60 minutes are very optimistic. the kernel building alone needs almost that time.