Backup
use gparted-clonezilla to backup existing hard drive. It took about 20 minutes to backup the 6.3GB recovery partition, and another 20 minutes to backup 18GB vista partition.
Do not try to shrink vista partition in gparted, it doesn't work. won't boot. Shrink volume in vista instead.
install gentoo
boot from amd64-livecd
f1
gentoo nox
# change root password
passwd
YOUR_PASSWORD
YOUR_PASSWORD
/etc/init.d/sshd start
prepare disk
# use fdisk to remove all partitions
# then use cfdisk to create partitions, like below
cfdisk /dev/sda
sda1 boot primary linux 100MB
sda2 primary swap 2046MB
sda3 logical linux 70000MB
mke2fs /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
mkreiserfs /dev/sda3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
date 021716412008
install initial files
cd /mnt/gentoo
# download stage3
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/amd64/current/stages/stage3-amd64-2007.0.tar.bz2
tar xvjpf stage3-amd64-2007.0.tar.bz2
# download portage
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2
tar xvjf portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
nano etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
USE="alsa arts bitmap-fonts cdr cjk doc dvd imap immqt-bc maildir mysql \
nls nptl nptlonly openal opengl oss ruby sdl ssl symlink \
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vhosts xv zlib"
VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vmware"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile
export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"
emerge --sync
nano -w /etc/locale.gen
# uncomment us locale
ls /usr/share/zoneinfo
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
compile kernel
unable to get 2.6.24 to work, used 2.6.23-r8.
nano -w /etc/portage/package.keywords
# add this line
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
emerge gentoo-sources
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
Enable loadable module support
[*] Module unloading
[ ] Module versioning support
[ ] Source checksum for all modules
[*] Automatic kernel module loading
Processor type and features
Processor family
Intel Core2 / newer Xeon
Networking --->
Wireless --->
<*> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
make && make modules_install
cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r2
file mount
nano /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo auto,ro 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname,
# change name to "think"
rc-update add net.eth0 default
# set root password
passwd
nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock
# change it to local
CLOCK="local"
basic system tools
emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default
emerge dcron
rc-update add dcron default
grub
emerge grub
emerge --config =grub-0.97-r3
* Enter the directory where you want to setup grub:
/boot
cp grub.conf.sample grub.conf
timeout 30
default 0
fallback 1
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo (2.6.23-gentoo-r8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda3
title=Gentoo (2.6.23-gentoo-r8 rescue)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda3 init=/bin/bb
grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
# exit
cdimage ~# cd
cdimage ~# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
cdimage ~# reboot
kernel panic
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo && mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
date 021718162008
# assure these are checked
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
CONFIG_SATA_NV=y
make && make modules_install
cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.24-gentoo-r2
after boot
useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash dchen
rc-update add sshd default
emerge gentoolkit
wifi
emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
emerge net-wireless/iwlwifi
emerge net-wireless/wireless-tools
# find your wifi device name
iwconfig
vim /etc/conf.d/net
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" # wext is generic wifi driver
vim /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
# router with WEP authentication
network={
ssid="router_ssid"
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0=1234567890
wep_tx_keyidx=0
priority=1
}
network={
ssid="your_router_name"
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=-9999999
}
cd /etc/init.d
ln -s net.lo net.wlan0
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
video
For the longest time, I couldn't get the nvidia 140m card to work, and can only use default nv driver, then I found in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, libwfb.so is missing. That's because the package I installed, nvidia-drivers-169.09-r1 is missing that required file. Following
this direction, finally i got glxgears to run at 4183FPS.
so just unpack the older version of nvidia-drivers, and copy that file to right location.
ebuild /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.11.ebuild unpack
cp /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.11/work/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.100.14.11 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
Chinese Input
emerge scim # with gtk and qt3 flag
# whem scim finish emerging, it has some additional instructions.
*
* To use SCIM with both GTK2 and XIM, you should use the following
* in your user startup scripts such as .gnomerc or .xinitrc:
*
* LANG='your_language' scim -d
* export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
* export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
* export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
*
* where 'your_language' can be zh_CN, zh_TW, ja_JP.eucJP or any other
* UTF-8 locale such as en_US.UTF-8 or ja_JP.UTF-8
*
* If you prefer KDE/Qt interface, try emerge app-i18n/skim.
*
* To use Chinese input methods:
* # emerge app-i18n/scim-tables app-i18n/scim-pinyin
* To use Korean input methods:
* # emerge app-i18n/scim-hangul
* To use Japanese input methods:
* # emerge app-i18n/scim-anthy
* To use various input methods (more than 30 languages):
* # emerge app-i18n/scim-m17n
vim ~/.xinitrc
LANG='zh_CN.GB2312' scim -d
export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM
export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
export QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
exec startxfce4
emerge app-i18n/scim-tables app-i18n/scim-pinyin
ctrl-alt-backspace to exit X window, then restart x, then it should work.
Think finger
yes it works.
Follow the guide on
Thinkwiki.
But to enable it, kernel has to has "CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT=y", which you can find in
Device Drivers --->
Input device support --->
Miscellaneous devices --->
<*> User level driver support
Reference
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4
by dorren,
11/16/2008
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