Server: Day One
Well, this is the first time I've proposed to do a "series", so we'll see if I even stick with it. I'm out to make a Gentoo/Apache server, just to store some files on, and I'm already over my head.My box is a Gateway 2000, and I don't really know what is inside it. I'm at a serious disadvantage here, but I've installed Gentoo with little more knowledge than I have now, so I think I'm okay.
I'm going with the minimal install CD. I intend to run off a stage 1 tarball.
So, I burned the image onto the a CD, and inserted the CD into the Hitachi CDR-7930 cdrom drive. It didn't take long to get an error.
ISOLINUX 2.13 2004-12-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it
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isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed.
Being the newbie I am, I didn't have much of a clue of what to do at this point. I googled and found a site with information on ISOLINUX, which is a Linux bootloader. For some reason, it is failing to locate the CD-ROM device. I'm kind of lost at this point. I'm hoping the error is inaccurate, so I'm following a fairly illogical route. Instead of burning the image from my iBook, I booted up Debian and am trying to download the image again. I intend to burn the CD from Debian, but I don't really know how that is going to work out. So far, I'm having trouble just downloading the damn thing.
Tags: linux, Computers, servers, gentoo
posted by Richard Moriarty @ 7:04 PM
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