Tried installing on a second computer, I have had trouble with its hard drive before (WD 160 GB SATA), I have to delete the partitions to get the installer to work.
Even doing that, I cannot get past the hard drive setup screen. No matter what option I choose, when I click next it ticks the 'Custom' option but nothing happens after that, i.e., clicking next again has no effect.
I tried the text installer. First problem is that it will not let me choose the hostname the way the graphical installer does. It always uses Sabayon. I had to switch to a console and manually change it:
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nano /etc/conf.d/hostname
Then run
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/etc/init.d/hostname restart
After it is installed, it boots to a console, i.e., not xdm (I noticed errors during boot but they went by too fast to read).
I tried creating an xorg config file using
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X -configure
but just gives errors (it turns out the problem wasn't with the X server so that was a waste of time).
I ran
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startx
and it runs twm.
I tried running
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xdm
the login screen will not accept any login.
I finally tried
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/etc/init.d/xdm start
that brought up a different login screen that works OK.
I did not have any of these problems installing from the same DVD on my other hardware.
Should I make a bug report for any of these problems?
