Re: Install info (was Dual boot partition map examples?)

This is useful info. I'm trying to get my Gentoo-2004 system into some 
sort of working order on the iMac and have been having all sorts of 
problems.

> 2) If you choose to enable "/dev file system support (OBSOLETE)" then 
> make sure you DO NOT ENABLE "Automatically mount at boot"... this 
> totally (and magnificently) screws up your boot process when you 
> "emerge udev" (which you should do) later on.

I couldn't get devfs to work at all. There seems to be a problem with 
it on certain releases. udev works but follow the instructions on the 
udev page. (Mind you I also had problems with shadow and pam-login, 
sigh, and I wasn't the only one.)

> 3) Choosing the right compiler options in make.conf really makes a 
> difference!  I'm attaching my make.conf.  Like I commented in the 
> code, the CFLAGS came from:
>
>          http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7012
>
> and the USE flags are slightly modified, but originally came from:
>
>          http://vincent.strubel.free.fr/gentoo-pb/files/make.conf

Also useful to know...

> 4) X takes a long time to compile, and when done, Xconfigure didn't 
> work (complained that it couldn't find my mouse or somesuch.  So, 
> attaching my xorg.conf... you'll have to tweak the screen/monitor 
> settings, because you have an ATi card, and we 12-inch people have 
> Nvidia.

I'm trying to get X working at the moment. It took 3.5 hours to get X 
to compile on the old iMac here, that's without the extras that're 
needed for things like XFCE4.

There's something on a webpage that says that udev uses 
/dev/input/mouse0 (or mice). Comparing this with my old Gentoo-1.4 
installation, the newer xorg stuff hasn't picked up a lot of the things 
that X11 did (like this).


Many thanks for the info - I know it's in reply to another question but 
this is neat! Ta muchly.

Rod


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