First i tried the minimal install cd (usb stick) which worked great, but then when it came to fetching the stage3 tar ball & portage snapshots... & kernel... it couldnt because it had not networking drivers... (both wired & wireless were not working )
so i downloaded the livecd install & made a bootable usb of it. it booted, but after it set the clock, it would come with a message... something about the delta...
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -338627902 ns)if wait about 5 minutes it continues to boot the livecd...
gdm fails to start up becasue of a the video driver...
just do nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver to vesa, then killall gdm, then gdm and you should have the gui XFCE.
i clicked on GUI installer, made my partitions...
100M ext2 /boot
10G ext3 /
44G ext3 /home
1.5G swap
continued with the instillation... which failed near to where the end of the install should be...
grub could not list all the kernels in /boot... here is the bug...
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230998
after reading that, i mounted / and /boot, copied the "gentoo" kernel that was on the livecd to boot, then manually installed grub & wrote a grub.conf.
then i added myself as a normal user... useradd...
unmounted everything... & here is the result
gentoo boots on natively on the MSI Wind U100!
My next step would be to:
- get the installer to install more packaged
- get the networking sorted out... im guessing it will be easier to get the wired interface to work...
the drivers are all here... http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1474 im just going to have to fiddle with it when i get more time.
3 comments:
very cool
Hi!I'm trying to install Gentoo on my WIND U100 and my biggest problem is to compile the r8101e driver for the ethernet card. Sources can be found here : http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=7&PFid=7&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#RTL8100E/RTL8101E/RTL8102E-GR/RTL8103E(L)
RTL8102E(L)/RTL8101E
Do you have achieve the compilation of this driver?
Sorry for my poor english, i'm french!
hi, rodhia. I ran out of time building gentoo on the U100 so I installed kubuntu. But I recently sold the U100... I was not getting a lot of use out of it.
In any case, I don't think I build X or KDE on the U100 when it did have gentoo on it.
good luck
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