Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] Gentoo installed on iMac 17''

[David B. <ma...@da...>]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 01:57:59AM +0100, Roberto Griso wrote:

> Thank you all, some minutes ago ive finished to install with success result
> gentoo distro on my imac 17''.

I've got Gentoo up and running on my Mac Mini.  I used the kernel patches
from CVS.  I had to use a video height slightly less than my framebuffer
size, since it seems to be starting the framebuffer a few rows down.  (I
have a 1600x1200 LCD display).

I had to build squashfs and unionfs to get the ubunto rescue disc working.
I don't need these for my Gentoo system, though.

I originally tried installing on a firewire drive, but got kernel panics
when trying to unpack the state3 tarball onto a reiserfs filesystem on the
firewire drive.  Things seem to work fine on the internal drive.

Xorg is building now.  With MAKEOPTS="-j5", this little computer builds
significantly faster than anything else I have.

At some point, I'm going to try building elilo and rEFIt myself.

David Brown