Gentoo EPIA Install (part 2)

Note: These directions are works-in-progress... in fact, they might not even work at all until I find out why I'm ending up with non-bootable systems (looks like a bug in the 2.6 kernel).

First up, still using the 2004.0 Gentoo Boot CD and referring to my old notes from last year. Also note that I rebuilt it in June 2004, so it may be better to look at those notes. Especially the "gentoo nohotplug" command during the boot process.

Going to use last June's installation notes for the most part, with a few notes here if I change anything.

Key commands (that don't do anything other then report status):

/sbin/ifconfig - verifies networking
ls -l /dev/hd* - shows hard drives
hdparm -i /dev/hda - display information about hda

Now to fire up fdisk and wipe any existing partitions. Then I'm going to create the same partitions I did last year. (Helps to refer to the Gentoo handbook for this step.)

Currently making my raid volumes, no changes from the June 2004 instructions. Verifying progress using "cat /proc/mdstat".