Installing Gentoo on a Dell Latitude D410: USB CDROM bug
I've got a borrowed laptop from my advisor that I need to install Gentoo on. But I have no working CD burners in the house, and only oldish Gentoo CDs, which have bugs in that they don't properly initialize and wait for the USB DVD drive (the only removable media this laptop has). This is fixed since mid-2005 but as I said I'm scrounging for CDS. Luckily many quick fixes are floating out there:
This is the fix I used with LiveCD 2005.0
- insert the liveCD into your external cdrom
- type "
gentoo doscsi[enter]" - shell (when it gives you an error)
- type "
udevstart[enter]" and exit - type "
/dev/ram0[enter]"
- See also: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83276 and http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Installing_Gentoo_using_USB-CDROM
- Aha, there is a page just for this laptop: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Latitude_D410
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