gentoo install whooops

[Collins]

On Tue, 28 May 2002 09:56:40 -0500 Richard R. Sivernell
<res005ru at gte.net> wrote:
> Collins
> 
>    trying to put gentoo on a laptop,
> 
> AST P series MMX 150 P I
> 2 gig HD   32 meg Mem soon to be 80 meg.
> 
> got the  137953280 May 25 00:15 gentoo-i686-1.1a.iso
> and used cdrecord to cdrom I get the following on the cd:
> [root at RickSivernell rick]# ll /mnt/cdrom
> total 126386
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Apr  8 14:41 isolinux
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      8119004 Apr  8 14:41
> stage1-ix86-1.1a.tbz2-r--r--r--    1 root     root     29118177 Apr 
> 8 14:41 stage2-i686-1.1a.tbz2-r--r--r--    1 root     root    
> 92178692 Apr  8 14:41 stage3-i686-1.1a.tbz2[root at RickSivernell
> rick]# ll /mnt/cdrom/isolinux total 8241
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root         2048 Apr  8 14:41 boot.catalog
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root         8552 Apr  8 14:41 isolinux.bin
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root          585 Apr  8 14:41 isolinux.cfg
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      1130925 Apr  8 14:41 kernel
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root           66 Apr  8 14:41 message.txt
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root      7295380 Apr  8 14:41 rescue.gz
> [root at RickSivernell rick]# cd /opt/downloads/gentoo
> 
> and it is suppose to boot, but does not. I must have done something
> wrong? but what.
> 

I have no experience with laptops, unfortunately.  Laptops are a mixed
bag with any distro (YMMV).  I suggest you search the gentoo user list
archives at the following url.

http://fireserver.ath.cx/gentoo/search/index.html

BTW, I'm forwarding to the list.  Doug Hunley apparently has a working
gentoo laptop.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla