As many of you know there is a wiki page describing the setup of Gentoo on the efika.

But there is also a experimental Stage4 for those not wanting to build the extra packages needed to have a running system.

And now there is a repository for some pre-compiled packages. Just set: in your /etc/make.conf

As always you can find good help at the #gentoo-efika IRC channel on Freenode.

That is great as is the mention again this past week in the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter with focus on the EFIKA overlay...

Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 18 December 2006

Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 11 December 2006

You Gentoo Folks are teriffic. Keep up the good work. Thanks!

R&B :)

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I installed your gentoo stage 4 but can't log-in! What is the root password?

Thanks,
ZXoney

Usually you'd install it from another installed Linux system, chroot into it and run passwd to set your own before booting it.

If it's been created from a stage3 and then just archived, then the password has been randomized by the Gentoo install system anyway. It's not root, genesi, efika or humpback :)

The same goes for nixnut's stage4.

If you need binary packages (as the thread was about) then yes, there is a repository (PORTAGE_BINHOST) which goes with nixnut's stage4 at http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default ... ppc-efika/
- but just remember to set the --getbinpkg and --usebinpkg flags in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS if you want it to happen all the time (but remember it adds a couple of minutes to every emerge while it verifies the cache). Just setting PORTAGE_BINHOST doesn't do a great deal.

Also just to be warned, don't change your CFLAGS or LDFLAGS or things will start to go kooky pretty fast if any of the binary packages mismatch compiled emerges in some esoteric way.

There are some safer optimizations but I would not want to browse the gcc documentation and ld documentation to find out which ones are the default and which ones don't mix. It's safer to leave them just as they are in the stage4.

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Thanks Matt,

I installed it on a blank system DUH! So yeah password was scrambled. I just thought stage-4 was like stage-3 with more added, not thinking it was another step in the install process... Will try again..

Thanks Again..

ZXoney

stage4 is, as implied, the next stage in the install process. It has the cron and syslog and all the rest of the bits configured as in the handbook, usually for a specific system configuration (like a hardened profile).

That doesn't necessarily mean it is ready for use though, it just means the next step in the handbook's been done, perhaps up to and including the very last step before "reboot your system into your installed Gentoo" :)

The password might not be scrambled as it is by the Gentoo installation process but in any case, it shouldn't matter as you are supposed to chroot in and set the passwords and install any much-needed software.

How did you get it onto a blank system?

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Matt Sealey

:) your the second person that ask me that..

I "tar jxvpf stage4-xxxx" and it put everything in a directory called efikachroot or something, so i just used the "cp" command to copy it all to the root of the drive...

ZXoney

From what?

You used a Gentoo kernel to boot from, with all those tools in??

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