i cant get the gentoo live cd (v 1.4) to see all of my ide drives
it sees hda as my 120gb (see below)
and hdc as my burner (again...below)
but nothing else

i have an interesting ide config:
primary master is a 120gb with windows
primary slave is an 80gb with linux
secondary master is a burner
then plugged into an pair of on board raid channels:
primary master: 160gb ext3 storage
secondary master: cd rom
secondary slave: dvd
yes, i realize 3 cdrom type drives are totally pointless, but it looks good in the front of my case, and im the only guy at lans with 3 cd roms
and: i realize the psychological impact of having my linux hard drive a a slave to my windows one. it hurt me too. i _had_ to do it that way. trust me on that one

redhat found all of these drives without a problem
gentoo doesnt: the 'verbose mode' system startup screen doesnt show that they are found
nor does cfdisk

help?

anyone?

anyone? anyone? bueller? bueller?

Sorry, Spaz, I also have Windows on /dev/hda and Linux on /dev/hdb and everything was detected OK. Maybe you could temporarily disconnect your Windows disk to get started? You don't need to open the case surely you can do it in BIOS.

DAVE

ok
its now seeing hdb
maybe it was there all along

but i have another issue now:

im running the install from the stage1 tarball
everything runs fine until the "emerge system" command
then emerge system stops when it cant download slang from
ftp://ftp.jedsoft.org/davis/slang/v1...-1.4.9.tar.bz2
i checked it out on this comp and the link doesnt exist

what can i do?
the install stops at this point, so i cant use the computer until i get this resolved

I don't have it handy at the moment, but the Gentoo instructions give two choices for setting up mirrors, one which lets you choose which mirror, one which does it for you. If you choose the latter, it actually adds a list of all mirrors it can get a response from, and when you do a download it tries them all in turn. I never had this problem as I did a stage three install.

I actually did stage three with GRP, loaded X and GNOME, did emerge sync, then built KDE (which I use 99.9% of the time) from source. My computer now runs quickly enough (much quicker than Mandrake) so I don't know if there is any real advantage in stage one.