[gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread gottlieb
My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity, and "burned" it to a USB stick with dd. However the wi

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/01/2015 08:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support > UEFI, which I have never used before. > > I have two questions. > > 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I > downloaded the iso, verified it's inte

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Arm64

2015-07-01 Thread James
So, (yippee!) My new arm64 board has finally shipped. (bummer_dude) Looking around for arm64 install instructions for gentoo (binary image, minimal_cd, cross compile or the old gentoo-embedded-handbook yields squat (nodda::noThing::zarro::null::ziltchen) ::=verboten ?[1] I did find this:: (cat

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Jc García
2015-07-01 9:17 GMT-06:00 : > My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support > UEFI, which I have never used before. > > I have two questions. > > 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I > downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity, and "burned" i

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 01 Jul 2015 16:33:42 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 07/01/2015 08:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > > My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support > > UEFI, which I have never used before. > > > > I have two questions. > > > > 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the m

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

2015-07-01 Thread gottlieb
Thank you Daniel, Mick, and Jc for the clarifications/suggestions. To respond to Jc, yes I used systemd so you suggestion is apt. thanks again to all, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Arm64

2015-07-01 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
James wrote: > So what I would like to do is just boot the board:: > > [ 8CORE ARMV8A SOC,1GB RAM,4GB EMMC,WIFI/BT ] > > with an existing gentoo image just to exercise (test) the hardware, > before installing it from scratch. Any and all suggestions > are most welcome. I don't have links to pre-bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Arm64

2015-07-01 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 07/01/2015 11:54 PM, James wrote: > So, > > (yippee!) > My new arm64 board has finally shipped. > Price, name, website, sata? Enquiring minds want to know? Andrew