Re: [cobalt-developers] XTR Gentoo install goes well

[josh <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I'm very interested in this. I still want to see if I can
run the 550 OS succesfully on my XTR but it turns out that Gentoo will
run on every other system that I have access to: old Sun Sparcs, Apple
PowerBooks, Windows PCs. This could have great advantages. Are you
planning to port the Cobalt Interface or simply have a standard
Gentoo installation on your server? 

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:47:53PM -0500, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> Installing Gentoo on my XTR continues and is starting to go well.
> 
> So far what I have done is extracted the Gentoo livecd.cloop which is a
> compressed ext2 file system. You must extract it with cloop v 0.66-1.
> Just like in the Gentoo instructions to install Gentoo in UML on top of
> a RH install.
> 
> http://www.omote.com/gentoo/install-in-uml.html
> 
> I them mounted the uncompressed livecd image to my /nfsroot-x86 nfs
> share.
> 
> mount -t loop livecd /nfsroot-x86
> 
> I then had to modify the /nfsroot-x86/etc/inittab file. Commenting out
> all terminals and adding the following line.
> 
> 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear --autologin root ttyS0 115200
> 
> When I boot the XTR it mounts my nfs share and gets me to the point
> where I can install Gentoo.
> 
> Terrific I am stoked. 
> 
> Now on to partitioning, formating, activating the raid and the array,
> mounting the new file systems and going on with the rest of a normal
> Gentoo install.

The raid part is of great interest to me because that (and memory
management and swap) was what did in my 550 OS install.

> 
> I will keep you all up to date on successes and failures. Whether you
> all care or not?

[How could I not care? I'm almost hurt that you'ld think I wouldn't
care;)

-- 
Josh Kuperman                       
josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx