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Ordered parts Thurs, came today. its been in the works for a while. getting random pieces here and there.
case: x-qpack (small form factor, tis rather big inside and easy to work with)
cpu: Opteron DualCore 165 w/ a Zalman full CU cooler 7000B i believe
ram: 2x 1gig G.SKILL (got it black friday for uber cheap)
mobo: DFI Infinity RS482
Stock psu at the moment, onboard audio/video video card isnt important right now.

went together rather quickly. im liking the DFI stuff. got windows installed, gentoo is causing some problems at the moment.. but im sure ill get it sorted out.




gentoo is compiling the kernel as we speak thanks to KANOTIX 64 :D
unlike my last computer i built (crappy msi) the front usb works.
stuff compiles sooooo fast :D

never EVER EVER, buying an ati product again.
now i gotta buy an IDE drive to install linux, b/c their is NO SATA DRIVERS. seriously wtf.. though, its 'installed' i just cant boot.. O_o... so maybe if i get an IDE to boot from i can use sata as storage and such. or a sata controller.

anyway, GTS, if ya can find any fix for the sata problem lemme know. (i'd tell ya on aim/irc BUT! yea. you know about our lack of internets......)

It's an ATI problem. The SATA chipset is proprietary ATI garbage. ATI doesn't give a good flying **** about Linux -- so you should never give a good flying **** about buying any product from them ever again -- or recommending their products to anybody ever again.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Cheap way out: PATA to SATA adapter?
Buy a cheap small HD.

horray for 400gig hd i paid 38.05 for.

lets see if everything copies over nicly.

Disk /dev/hdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
mmmm

b/c kopete likes to crash here it is:

[code:1]
GNU nano 1.3.9 File: /boot/grub/grub.conf

default 0
timeout 30

splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.15r7
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda3

title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1[/code:1]


----------------------------------------------------------------------
[code:1]
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0[/code:1]


--------------------------------------------------

[code:1]# grub-install /dev/hda
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/sda

[/code:1]
is that fd0 forking everything up?

hda is first in the "what bios consider first drive"

more:
[code:1]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 526 4120672+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 527 48641 386483737+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7649 61440561 7 HPFS/NTFS
[/code:1]

problem probably b/c windows is on a seperate disk...

but it has too b/c ati is retarded.... well.... i think i can get this fixed :X

Might be less headache in the long run to buy a new motherboard. ATI boards are pretty frustrating in Linux.

He has it going now... just have to boot from an IDE drive on that evil evil evil motherboard.

yea i got it, just had to reinstall windows. then gentoo. then figure out why itwould not boot (still had reminents of grub on old hd = grub error 22). then got it working, emerged kde-meta last night (in kde atm) emerging gaim. and damn this keyboard to hell, its wireless but the damn 'reciever' or w/e is touching the keyboard and its still doing like mad key repeatsssssss.

blarg its going back. getting http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6813130529
dat instead. wheeeeeee

Looks good. Let us know how it goes.

DFI on its way back *grumble* shipping fees *grumble*
MSI on its way here.
SUGO on its way here

new CD/DVD burner in (lite-on (its short))
new psu (full atx psu 450watt X-Clio) whats nice about it is the side you see through windows is allll black. no documentation on the psu. and its got a 120mm fan :D = MOoooore cooling.

UV reactive cables in, Rounded 10"/12" ide, 2 18" sata. (i got UV cathodes around)

wires are all tucked away in between Ide/dvd burner so its nice and neat.
pics when mobo arives.

UPS CAN GO F*** THEMSELVES!!1 keeping my motherboard on a TRUCK FOR 2 DAYS!!! and its fricking ~2miles from destination.

well it came, had a huge ass hole in the side of the box. THANKS UPS!

sound works w/ kanotix OotB. :)
Ethernet not so much. BUT, nvidia has drivers on website :D so im getting everything i need for a gentoo install ready.

my sugo owns too. huge space. will hold everything when i need to move the computer :)

where do i aquire
gentoo-sources

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/d...r3.tar.bz2 ??? though thats 2.4... isnt it..?



and where in portage junx do i put it? and how do i use it offline?

no - you want 2.6 based sources

emerge --fetchonly gentoo-sources

(hit Ctrl C as it starts chugging out errors)

Use the URL it errors on to go get what it needs... place it in
/usr/portage/distfiles/

k thx, ill do that.

do i just run the command again and it'll process it once its there?

again and again until you've fetched all that you need. this is why NIC support is priority #1 for gentoo install CDs :)

that should be it.

damn school downloads slow tho :|

nvm, got kernel compiled.

OpenSuse is a PIECE.
goin' back to strugglin' w/ gentoo tommorow.

[X] Gentoo installed
[X] In live envirionment
[X] Driver installed
[X] Modprobe nvnet (no errors)
[ ] dchpcd eth0 works.... No......

any ideas?

/etc/conf.d/net .... add:
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )


rmmod nvnet ; modprobe nvnet ; ifconfig eth0 up ; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

/etc/conf.d/net .... add:
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
already did those

rmmod nvnet ; modprobe nvnet ; ifconfig eth0 up ; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
will try these.

on reboot;

rmmod nvnet
ERROR: module nvnet does not exist in /proc/modules
modprobe nvnet (works)
ifconfig up
up: error fetching interface information: Device not found



tried again

lsmod, nothing there
modprobe nvnet (no error)
ifconfig eth0 up (no error)
/etc/init.d/start.eth0 start (running dhcpcd slooooow)



:\

OMFG THATS WEAK AS F***
TO GET ETHERNET I HAVE TO TURN OFF, UNPLUG COMPTUER FOR 10 SECONDS THEN PLUG IN.. BUT ONLY IF I WAS IN WINDOWS BEFORE HAND!

OMFG! BURN IN HELL WINDOWS!!!!!!!!


i am teh win now.. all is well in the wolrd
thanks GTS i think part of what you said helped :D

Ah -- that means the NIC is having firmware loaded into it. I have a Linksys WUSB11 wireless B adapter (atmel at76c503a) ... and it loads firmware into the device. If you're in Linux, and you just came from Windows... it's hosed until you unplug it. If you're in Windows, and you just came from Linux.... it's hosed until you unplug it.

I think it is because of text encoding of the firmware (ASCII in Windows, Unicode in Linux)

well im emerging and all is well.
should have kde up in an hour or 2..

lmao hour or two...

anyway its up. im happy :D