c’t 12/2005, page 148 – Windows XP HomePro
Windows XP Home promoted to Professional
This is great! Finally people can all use the good feature of Windows XP Pro even if they only bought Home. Home is really a major pain. I have seen a few products that refuse to work properly on the Home version. But now, by following the instructions you can "Patch" XP Home to be almost as good.
Nice work!
Here are the instructions I followed to get SNMP and Cacti working on Gentoo:
emerge cacti cacti-cactid
groupadd cacti
useradd -g cacti -G cron cactiuser
cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cacti/
mysql –user=root cacti < cacti.sql
chown -R cactiuser rra/ log/
mysql
mysql> create database cactidb;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to root@localhost;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser;
mysql> grant all on cactidb.* to cactiuser@localhost;
mysql> set password for cactiuser@localhost=password(‘mycactipw’);
mysql> exit
nano config.php
$database_type = "mysql";
$database_default = "cacti";
$database_hostname = "localhost";
$database_username = "cactiuser";
$database_password = "mycactipw";
Now open browser to http://localhost/cacti
Follow the steps:
Login as admin password admin
change password
Back to the command line
crontab -e -u cactiuser
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cacti/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1
nano -w /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
com2sec local 127.0.0.1/32 public
com2sec local 10.10.10.0/24 publicgroup MyROGroup v1 local
group MyROGroup v2c local
group MyROGroup usm localview all included .1 80
access MyROGroup "" any noauth exact all none none
syslocation MyLocation
syscontact Me <me@somewhere.org>
/etc/init.d/snmpd start
rc-update add snmpd default
Should be all good!
Well I said in my initial Gentoo post that I would detail how to make Nano the text editor default to non-word wrap mode so you don’t have to specify the -w option everytime to edit a file.
You need to make sure you have a .nanorc file in your home directory. If you don’t there should be one in /etc/ (/etc/nanorc). So copy that one:
cp /etc/nanorc ~/.nanorc
Now edit the file
nano -w ~/.nanorc
I uncommented the following options:
I also inserted some syntax based colouring options (I think I found most of them either in nanorc or forums.gentoo.org)
Edited: If you want to look at the syntax colouring download the nanorc file attached to this blog entry. It’s easier to read anyway.
Hooray for nano!
Well I was happily running around the lostcoast in
HL2 last week and I fell of the bloody cliff. Bugger. I managed to
survive and therefore went for a walk. This is where I ended up.
Try it yourself, its more fun than playing Lostcoast properly and even
better than hearing twats blah blah about how great HDR is and how much
of a boner they get for giving us piss poor content a year after the
game came out. Anyway make sure you don’t go into the city otherwise
you fall through the map and die 🙁
Here are some of my favourites:
Well after much mucking around I think I have finally got MythTV and Gentoo Linux working as required. I have had to install a fair bit of extra stuff to do the things I want but it was worth it. I now know a lot more about Linux and Gentoo.
One very useful hint I will give to the world is USE flags. The use flags you choose at the start will save you many many recompiles. Also definately set up CCache (Compiler Cache) http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Use_ccache
Well just so other people can save time, here is my Use flags for MythTV and Gentoo Linux:
USE="-directfb mjpeg 3dnow 3dnowext aac acpi alsa apache2 avi bzlib cdr crypt cscope divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode fftw flac gd gif gtk howl imlib ithreads jpeg joystick lirc live mad matroska mmx mmxext mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses net nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam png quicktime readline real sdl sse svga theora threads tiff transcode truetype usb v4l v4l2 win32codecs X x86 xanim xine-lib xinerama xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib"
Here is also a list of all the packages I have installed. There is probably some crap in there but my system works!
app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.01
app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.2-r1
app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9-r2
app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2
app-admin/eselect-0.9.6
app-admin/syslog-ng-1.6.8-r1
app-arch/tar-1.15.1
app-arch/cabextract-1.1
app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r8
app-arch/cpio-2.6-r4
app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r3
app-arch/unzip-5.52
app-arch/bzip2-1.0.3-r5
app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8
app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01-r3
app-crypt/hashalot-0.3
app-crypt/mhash-0.9.2
app-doc/doxygen-1.4.4
app-editors/nano-1.3.7
app-i18n/kakasi-2.3.4
app-misc/lirc-0.7.2
app-misc/mime-types-4
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r2
app-shells/bash-3.0-r12
app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r8
app-text/sablotron-1.0.1
app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4
dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.6.4_p3
dev-db/mysql-4.0.25-r2
dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r6
dev-lang/swig-1.3.21
dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2
dev-lang/nasm-0.98.39-r1
dev-lang/python-2.4.2
dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1
dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.22
dev-libs/expat-1.95.8
dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20
dev-libs/glib-2.6.5
dev-libs/libol-0.3.16
dev-libs/atk-1.10.1
dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1
dev-libs/apr-0.9.6-r3
dev-libs/libpcre-6.3
dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.1
dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.22
dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5
dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.7
dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.6-r2
dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.15
dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.6
dev-libs/libusb-0.1.10a
dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e-r2
dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.03
dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.08
dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.21
dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.38
dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2016-r1
dev-perl/DBI-1.46
dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51
dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.03-r2
dev-perl/URI-1.35
dev-perl/libnet-1.19
dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.45
dev-perl/Compress-Zlib-1.35
dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.800
dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.14
dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.12
dev-perl/Archive-Tar-1.23-r1
dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.12
dev-perl/yaml-0.36
dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.01
dev-perl/IO-String-1.05
dev-perl/Term-ProgressBar-2.06-r1
dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34
dev-perl/Lingua-EN-Numbers-Ordinate-1.02
dev-perl/Class-MethodMaker-1.11
dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.49
dev-perl/module-build-0.25
dev-perl/XML-Handler-YAWriter-0.23-r1
dev-perl/HTTP-Cache-Transparent-0.5
dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-0.96
dev-perl/Unicode-String-2.07
dev-perl/Tk-TableMatrix-1.1-r1
dev-perl/perl-tk-804.027
dev-perl/DateManip-5.42a-r1
dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.18
dev-perl/HTML-TableExtract-1.08
dev-perl/Scalar-List-Utils-1.14
dev-perl/libxml-perl-0.08
dev-perl/Text-Iconv-1.4
dev-perl/XML-XPath-1.13
dev-perl/XML-Filter-BufferText-1.01
dev-perl/XML-SAX-Base-1.04
dev-perl/XML-SAX-Writer-0.44-r1
dev-perl/HTML-LinkExtractor-0.13
dev-perl/Tie-IxHash-1.21-r1
dev-perl/XML-Twig-3.17
dev-perl/Text-Kakasi-2.04
dev-perl/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13
dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25
dev-perl/IO-stringy-2.109
dev-perl/WWW-Mechanize-1.12
dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1
dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.9007
dev-perl/XML-LibXML-1.58-r1
dev-perl/Exporter-Lite-0.01
dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.10
dev-perl/Email-Valid-0.15-r1
dev-perl/Email-Find-0.09
dev-perl/Net-Domain-TLD-1.5
dev-perl/Log-TraceMessages-1.4
dev-perl/HTML-FromText-2.05
dev-perl/Lingua-Preferred-0.2.4
dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.415
dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.510
dev-perl/MIME-Lite-3.01
dev-perl/Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203
dev-perl/SOAP-Lite-0.60a-r1
dev-perl/MailTools-1.67
dev-php/php-4.4.0-r3
dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r7
dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1
dev-util/pkgconfig-0.17.2-r1
dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206
dev-util/ccache-2.3
dev-util/intltool-0.34.1
games-emulation/gxmame-0.35_beta2
games-emulation/zsnes-1.42
games-emulation/snes9x-1.43-r1
games-emulation/stella-1.4.2
games-emulation/xmame-0.101
games-util/joystick-20050720
gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1
gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1
gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3
gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2
gnome-base/orbit-0.5.17
kde-base/kdelibs-3.4.1-r1
kde-base/kdebase-pam-6
kde-base/kde-env-3-r4
kde-base/arts-3.4.1-r2
kde-base/kdebase-3.4.1-r1
mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11
media-fonts/corefonts-1-r2
media-gfx/splash-themes-livecd-2005.1
media-gfx/splashutils-1.1.9.8
media-gfx/graphviz-1.16-r1
media-gfx/fbgrab-1.0
media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo-20050429
media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.4.2-r1
media-libs/divx4linux-20030428-r1
media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1
media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3
media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9
media-libs/libpng-1.2.8
media-libs/lcms-1.13-r1
media-libs/libmng-1.0.8-r1
media-libs/jpeg-6b-r5
media-libs/tiff-3.7.3
media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.17
media-libs/libogg-1.1.2
media-libs/libvorbis-1.1.0
media-libs/audiofile-0.2.6-r1
media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b
media-libs/libmikmod-3.1.11-r1
media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b
media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1
media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r4
media-libs/libcdaudio-0.99.12
media-libs/flac-1.1.1
media-libs/t1lib-5.0.2
media-libs/win32codecs-20050216
media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.11
media-libs/faac-1.24
media-libs/id3lib-3.8.3-r3
media-libs/faad2-2.0-r7
media-libs/giflib-4.1.4
media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r5
media-libs/libmpeg3-1.5.2
media-libs/imlib2-1.2.0-r2
media-libs/libexif-0.5.12-r3
media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.4
media-libs/svgalib-1.9.21-r1
media-libs/libdvb-0.5.0-r1
media-libs/libdts-0.0.2-r3
media-libs/xvid-1.0.2
media-libs/xine-lib-1.0.1-r4
media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.3
media-libs/daaplib-0.1.1a
media-libs/gd-2.0.32
media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha3
media-libs/libjsw-1.5.5
media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.10
media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10
media-libs/jpeg-mmx-0.1.6-r1
media-libs/libmpeg2-0.4.0b
media-libs/netpbm-10.29
media-libs/libmovtar-0.1.3-r1
media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.9
media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4-r1
media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10
media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss-0.8.10
media-plugins/xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1
media-plugins/xmms-mikmod-1.2.10
media-plugins/xmms-vorbis-1.2.10-r1
media-plugins/xmms-arts-0.7.1-r1
media-plugins/xmms-oss-1.2.10
media-plugins/xmms-mad-0.8
media-plugins/xmms-lirc-1.4
media-plugins/xmms-alsa-1.2.10-r2
media-plugins/mythvideo-0.18.1
media-plugins/mythdvd-0.18.1
media-plugins/mythweather-0.18.1
media-plugins/mythmusic-0.18.1
media-plugins/live-2005.01.29
media-plugins/mythbrowser-0.18.1
media-plugins/mythgallery-0.18.1
media-plugins/mythgame-0.18.1
media-plugins/mythnews-0.18.1
media-plugins/xmms-esd-1.2.10-r1
media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.8.10
media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9b
media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.9a
media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15
media-sound/lame-3.96.1
media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8-r2
media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b
media-sound/esound-0.2.36-r1
media-sound/daapd-0.2.4a
media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.0_p20050702
media-tv/xmltv-0.5.37-r1
media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r2
media-tv/nuvexport-0.2_pre20051020
media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.6629
media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1
media-video/ogle-0.9.2
media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629-r6
media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r5
media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001-r1
media-video/nvclock-0.8b
media-video/qc-usb-0.6.3
media-video/transcode-0.6.14-r2
media-video/realplayer-10.0.6
media-video/xanim-2.80.1-r4
media-video/xine-ui-0.99.3
media-video/kaffeine-0.7.1
media-video/mpeg2vidcodec-12-r1
media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11
media-video/mjpegtools-1.6.2-r4
media-video/avidemux-2.0.24
media-video/lve-040322
media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4
net-dns/libidn-0.5.15
net-fs/samba-3.0.14a-r2
net-libs/libhttpd-persistent-1.3p-r8
net-libs/libwww-5.4.0-r4
net-mail/mailbase-1
net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1
net-misc/iputils-021109-r3
net-misc/tightvnc-1.3_alpha5
net-misc/wget-1.10.2
net-misc/ntp-4.2.0.20040617-r3
net-misc/dhcpcd-2.0.0
net-misc/rsync-2.6.0-r6
net-misc/curl-7.15.0
net-misc/howl-0.9.8
net-misc/rdate-0.990821-r2
net-nds/portmap-5b-r9
net-print/cups-1.1.23-r1
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.3.9-r1
net-wireless/rt2500-1.1.0_beta2-r2
net-wireless/wireless-tools-27-r1
net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2
net-www/webapp-config-1.11
net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31
perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.21
perl-core/MIME-Base64-3.05
perl-core/digest-base-1.10
perl-core/Storable-2.13
perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.33
perl-core/Test-Harness-2.42
perl-core/Test-Simple-0.54
perl-core/Memoize-1.01
perl-core/CGI-3.05
sci-libs/fftw-2.1.5-r1
sys-apps/pam-login-3.17
sys-apps/less-382-r2
sys-apps/hdparm-5.9
sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r1
sys-apps/sed-4.1.4
sys-apps/gawk-3.1.4-r4
sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r5
sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8
sys-apps/help2man-1.33.1
sys-apps/hotplug-base-20040401
sys-apps/rename-1.3
sys-apps/usbutils-0.11-r5
sys-apps/file-4.13
sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r11
sys-apps/coldplug-20040920
sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r2
sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.12
sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r1
sys-apps/busybox-1.00-r4
sys-apps/shadow-4.0.7-r4
sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r8
sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r
sys-apps/man-1.6-r1
sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2
sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86
sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2
sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r6
sys-apps/which-2.16
sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13-r1
sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22-r3
sys-apps/man-pages-2.11
sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r5
sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.6
sys-apps/eject-2.0.13-r2
sys-apps/debianutils-2.14.1-r1
sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1
sys-apps/smartmontools-5.33
sys-boot/grub-0.96-r2
sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r3
sys-devel/automake-1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-3-r1
sys-devel/gettext-0.14.4
sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1
sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/patch-2.5.9
sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake-1.5
sys-devel/libperl-5.8.6-r1
sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1
sys-devel/make-3.80-r2
sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r6
sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6
sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6
sys-devel/bc-1.06-r6
sys-devel/automake-1.6.3
sys-devel/libtool-1.5.20
sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
sys-devel/bison-1.875d
sys-devel/gnuconfig-20050602
sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r5
sys-devel/m4-1.4.3
sys-fs/device-mapper-1.01.03
sys-fs/lvm2-2.01.09
sys-fs/xfsprogs-2.6.25
sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.38
sys-fs/udev-070-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.11-r2
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r5
sys-libs/ss-1.38
sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3
sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.3-r1
sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2
sys-libs/readline-5.0-r2
sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r4
sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r6
sys-libs/com_err-1.38
sys-libs/pwdb-0.62
sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r2
sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5
sys-libs/db-1.85-r2
sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3
sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2
sys-libs/lib-compat-1.4
sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2
sys-process/procps-3.2.5-r1
sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r8
sys-process/psmisc-21.6
www-apps/mythweb-0.18.1
www-client/links-2.1_pre18
x11-base/opengl-update-2.2.1
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4
x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3
x11-libs/pango-1.8.1-r1
x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8
x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r11
x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.10
x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.16
x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3
x11-terms/xterm-204
x11-themes/mythtv-themes-0.18
x11-wm/evilwm-0.99.17
This guide is extremely useful if you want to upgrade your hard drive in Linux. I have done it twice now and it works really well.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-73146-highlight-howto+disk.html
OMG what a world of hurt I have put myself in.
I decided to upgrade my computer at home so I could play Battlefield 2 properly. So now I have a DFI Nforce 4 SLI motherboard with 2Gb of OCZ Ram, a AMD 3000 Venice core processor clocked up to 2339Mhz (above the default 1800Mhz) and a brand spanking 7800GT graphics card….hmmmmm
Expensive stuff. Anyway my old PC was now suitable for use as a PVR and I did have my old Windows XP system working well with the Dvico software and boring old Windows. It worked looked nice but user interface wise it wasn’t working very well with the TV.
So here come Linux. I have started learning Linux by installing Gentoo at work. It’s good for the task. I have an old P3 500Mhz machine I wanted as a LAMP server so I could run Cacti to monitor all the SNMP devices at the paper machine I work on. It works well and uses the hardware better than Windows 2000 did.
But Linux and digital TV. Damn its not easy. I started with Ubuntu thinking it would be quite easy. It was….kind of. Got it going quickly but it was frustrating how it was hiding things from me. I found it confusing partitioning the disks because I didn’t know how it was going to boot the system. So I mucked around a bit but it worked. Ubuntu started up into Gnome fine, more mucking around and I had TV out working…nice. Little more and the Wireless network was going. But to get the USB wireless keyboard to work….nah. Try to install Myth….nah. Stuff it, I’ll stick with what I know and at least compiling from source I can add patches as I need and not be afraid when I compile the kernel that it will be broken.
So after wasting most of one day I spent the next installing Gentoo. The compiling. Then emerging things and finding I need to recompile again. Then I find that things aren’t quite that easy for the RT2500 wireless cards….they bloody don’t work on boot for some reason. It works after startup, but during the boot sequence it doesn’t. Damn. Still working on that.
Anyway I still have other stuff to talk about but maybe I will post that next time. Hopefully I will have some more solutions and less problems.
Log onto the operator station using telnet
Go to the /etc/rc.config.d directory:
cd /etc/rc.config.d
Edit the following files using vi:
Vi isn’t easy to use, I suggest you check out http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/unix_guide/node13.html or http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html
In each file change the line:
SNMP_HPUNIX_START=0
to
SNMP_HPUNIX_START=1
Now start the Snmp daemon from the shell:
snmpd
It’s now working, check it is by either using top or:
ps -ef | grep snmpd
Well I have decided to have a play with a Linux distribution. I chose
Gentoo because of the flexibility and the fact that it has a good user
support base.
I
have started using Gentoo for a LAMP based web server at work. I am
going to use Drupal as my CMS because of its flexibility and also ease
of use. Obviously I like Drupal (why else would my Blog use it)
One
thing I have found is that installing Gentoo is not as easy as I
expected. The main difficulty I had was with installing it at work
behind a firewall. I had the full installation CD, but I didn’t realise
I needed the packages as well…doh!
Anyway just for other
peoples info these are the steps I followed to get my first Gentoo
install going. I think it is still a bit broken but I will add bits as
I go. I am doing the same thing at home because I want to build a HTPC
and use Gentoo with MythTV, I know there are easier ways but I think I
will need some bleeding edge packages which won’t be included in the
"nice" distributions.
fdisk /dev/hda
We need to remove existing partitions
d then 1
Do this for each existing partition
Now make the new Linux partitions
n then p then 1 then press ENTER then +32M
n then p then 2 then press ENTER then +512M
n then p then 3 then press ENTER then press ENTER
Now write the changes
w
Now we need to put the filesystem on
We will make the Boot and Root filesystems ext2
mke2fs /dev/hda1
mke2fs /dev/hda3
Set up the Swap
mkeswap /dev/hda2
swapon /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo
links2 http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
It will be named something like stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2
tar -xvjpf stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2
It will be named something like portage-20050803.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20050803.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
But I will include more details later once I work out my optimal flag settings. -w is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, it makes sure nano doesn’t use wordwrap. I will explain how to turn this off permanently later. Stupid default setting!
cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile
emerge –sync
rm /etc/conf.d/net
touch /etc/nsswitch.conf
CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" emerge baselayout
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne /etc/localtime
emerge gentoo-sources
maybe emerge gentoo-dev-sources might be required for bleeding edge
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make && make modules_install
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
cp .config /boot/config-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
nano -w /etc/fstab
I will put details of my fstab file in here later, should be something like this:
/dev/hda1 /boot auto noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / auto noatime 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
Set the hostname
nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname
rc-update add domainname default
Set the root password
passwd
nano -w /etc/rc.conf
emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default
emerge vixie-cron
rc-update add vixie-cron default
emerge dhcpcd
emerge grub
nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 0
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3
cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
grub-install /dev/hda
exit
umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
reboot
