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<title>Hardware Requirements</title> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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<ti>Any PowerPC64 CPU</ti> |
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<th>Memory</th> |
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<title>The Gentoo Installation CDs</title> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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The <e>Gentoo Installation CDs</e> are bootable CDs which contain a |
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self-sustained Gentoo environment. They allow you to boot Linux from the CD. |
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All Installation CDs allow you to boot, set up networking, initialize your |
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partitions and start installing Gentoo from the Internet. We currently provide |
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two Installation CDs which are equally suitable to install Gentoo from, as long |
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as you're planning on performing an Internet-based installation using the |
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latest version of the available packages. |
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If you wish to install Gentoo without a working Internet connection, please use |
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the installation instructions described in the <uri |
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link="2008.0/index.xml">Gentoo 2008.0 Handbooks</uri>. |
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The two Installation CDs that we currently provide are: |
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The Gentoo <e>Minimal</e> Installation CD, a small, no-nonsense, bootable |
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CD which sole purpose is to boot the system, prepare the networking and |
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continue with the Gentoo installation. |
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The Gentoo <e>Universal</e> Installation CD, a bootable CD with the same |
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<title>Gentoo's Minimal Installation CD</title> |
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The Minimal Installation CD is called |
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<c>install-ppc64-minimal-2008.0.iso</c> and takes up only 124 MB of |
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diskspace. You can use this Installation CD to install Gentoo, but always with a |
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working Internet connection only. |
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The Universal Installation CD is called |
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<c>install-ppc64-universal-2008.0.iso</c> and uses 460 MB. You can use |
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A stage3 tarball is an archive containing a minimal Gentoo environment, suitable |
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Previously, the Gentoo Handbook described the installation using one of three |
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stage tarballs. While Gentoo still offers stage1 and stage2 tarballs, the |
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official installation method uses the stage3 tarball. If you are interested in |
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performing a Gentoo installation using a stage1 or stage2 tarball, please read |
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the Gentoo FAQ on <uri link="/doc/en/faq.xml#stage12">How do I Install Gentoo |
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Using a Stage1 or Stage2 Tarball?</uri> |
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On PPC64, the kernel is 64-bit and the <e>userland</e> can be 32-bit or 64-bit. The |
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64-bit or 32-bit modes. The Gentoo/PPC64 team provides both 32-bit and 64-bit |
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userlands, so which one should you use? |
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You may have heard that 64-bit applications are better, but in fact, 32-bit |
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userlands, so no matter which one you choose, you'll be able to successfully |
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install Gentoo and get a full system up and running with minimal fuss. |
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<title>Downloading and Burning the Installation CDs</title> |
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You have chosen to use a Gentoo Installation CD. We'll first start by |
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downloading and burning the chosen Installation CD. We previously discussed the |
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several available Installation CDs, but where can you find them? |
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Inside that directory you'll find ISO files. Those are full CD images |
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<path>install-ppc64-minimal-2008.0.iso.DIGESTS</path>). You can check the MD5 |
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Enables verbose booting, spawns an initrd shell that can be used to debug |
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the Installation CD |
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</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<ti><c>sleep=X</c></ti> |
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<ti> |
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Wait X seconds before continuing; this can be needed by some very old SCSI |
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CD-ROMs which don't speed up the CD quick enough |
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</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<ti><c>bootfrom=X</c></ti> |
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<ti> |
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Boot from a different device |
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</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<ti><c>dosshd</c></ti> |
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<ti>Starts <c>sshd</c>. Useful for unattended installs.</ti> |
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</tr> |
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<tr> |
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<ti><c>passwd=foo</c></ti> |
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<ti> |
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Sets whatever is after the = as the root password. Use with <c>dosshd</c> |
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for remote installs. |
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</ti> |
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</tr> |
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</table> |
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<p> |
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At this prompt, hit enter, and a complete Gentoo Linux environment will be |
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loaded from the CD. Continue with <uri link="#booted">And When You're |
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Booted...</uri>. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>IBM pSeries</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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The CD should autoboot on your pSeries box, but sometimes it does not. In that |
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case, you have to set up your cdrom as a bootable device in the multi-boot |
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menu. If you start your machine with a monitor and a keyboard attached, you can |
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reach the multi-boot menu pressing the F1 key on startup. But if you start your |
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machine using the serial console, then you have to press <c>1</c>. Press the |
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key when you see the beginning of the following line on the serial console: |
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</p> |
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1.30 |
<pre caption="Hit the '1' key when this line appears"> |
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memory keyboard network scsi speaker |
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</pre> |
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<p> |
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nightmorph |
1.36 |
The other option is to jump into Open Firmware and do it from there: |
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1.1 |
</p> |
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1.30 |
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<ol> |
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<li> |
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nightmorph |
1.36 |
Boot into Open Firmware: same procedure as getting into multi-boot |
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neysx |
1.30 |
(described a few lines above), but use F8 and 8 instead of F1 and 1. |
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</li> |
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<li>Run the command 0> boot cdrom:1,yaboot</li> |
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<li>Stand back and enjoy!</li> |
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</ol> |
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<note> |
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nightmorph |
1.36 |
If you get something like the following output, then Open Firmware isn't set up |
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neysx |
1.30 |
correctly. Please use the multi-boot option described above. |
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</note> |
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nightmorph |
1.36 |
<pre caption="Output if Open Firmware is not set up correctly"> |
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neysx |
1.30 |
0 > boot cdrom:1,yaboot |
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ok |
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0 > |
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</pre> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection id="booted"> |
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<title>And When You're Booted...</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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You will be greeted by a root ("#") prompt on the current console. You can also |
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switch to other consoles by pressing Alt-fn-F2, Alt-fn-F3 and Alt-fn-F4. Get |
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back to the one you started on by pressing Alt-fn-F1. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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If you are installing Gentoo on a system with a non-US keyboard, use |
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<c>loadkeys</c> to load the keymap for your keyboard. To list the available |
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keymaps, execute <c>ls /usr/share/keymaps/i386</c>. |
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</p> |
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<pre caption="Listing available keymaps"> |
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<comment>(PPC uses x86 keymaps on most systems. The mac/ppc keymaps provided |
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swift |
1.17 |
on the Installation CD are ADB keymaps and unusable with the |
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Installation CD kernel)</comment> |
466 |
swift |
1.1 |
# <i>ls /usr/share/keymaps/i386</i> |
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</pre> |
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<p> |
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Now load the keymap of your choice: |
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</p> |
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<pre caption="Loading a keymap"> |
474 |
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# <i>loadkeys be-latin1</i> |
475 |
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</pre> |
476 |
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477 |
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<p> |
478 |
|
|
Now continue with <uri link="#hardware">Extra Hardware Configuration</uri>. |
479 |
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</p> |
480 |
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481 |
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</body> |
482 |
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</subsection> |
483 |
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484 |
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<subsection> |
485 |
nightmorph |
1.38 |
<include href="hb-install-bootconfig.xml"/> |
486 |
swift |
1.2 |
</subsection> |
487 |
swift |
1.1 |
|
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</section> |
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</sections> |