Install on Dell Latitude c700? Upgrade? Avahi blocked?

[Shelbie]

I have tried and played with Gentoo for a while but switched to Ubuntu about a year ago. After some problems with Ubuntu I thought I'd give this Sabayon a go and wooow! I have to say I am impressed! My wireless PCMCIA card which other distros require me to go through a tedious NDISwrapper crap worked straight after install on my Dell inspiron 8200.

The look and feel looks great too and so does the Sabayon website!

The thing is I would love to install Sabayon on the kids laptops (on Ubuntu now) but the install doesn't seem to work on the old Dell Latitude c700's! (something about the text and graphical install is disabled or something) What are the minimum requirements?

I downloaded the 700mb install image and upgraded the profile to 2007.0. I am used to how Gentoo works so how would I upgrade to Sabayon 3.4?

After upgrading the profile lI seem to have some issues with a blocked Avahi? What is avahi and why is it blocked?

[WarraWarra]

Have you tried killing acpi before install.

F5 and adding nokvm and noacpi.

If not sure what cheat codes / boot options to use, the iso / cd if inserted into linux / windoze has a read me with a few good options.

I use xdriver=nvidia rmmod=bcm43xx res=1440x900 insmod=ndiswrapper , although ndiswrapper has to first have a .inf driver so I just reload it after adding a driver once in kde, nokvm = no kernel virtualization as might be unsupported on the c700 cpu ? also I have seen noacpi on older laptops is a good start.

Avahi clashes with mDNSResponder or try "emerge -uD avahi --pretend" to see.
No avahi no knetworkmanager function = dhcp unhappy or something like this.
mDSNResponder can be removed , but there is a fix for this already.

PS> see notes of 3.4 loop3 dvd and latest anaconda installer fix.

Hope this helps.

[WarraWarra]

Sry forgot but 3.3 mini / cd should be able to work on the c700 = 3.3 is last stable version before next 3.4 upcoming release.

If you have the 3.4 loop3 dvd there is a installer / anaconda on the desktop just use "update installer" and then run the installer using the upgrade option there , 3rd options windows about.

You can alternatively add the overlay to the etc/make.conf file and remember to once this is finished run "layman -S"

I will have to boot into SL and post the make.conf here so you can copy it = easiest I think then "emerge -uD system" and later "emerge -uD world" if you need too.

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# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs -mmmx -m32"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -s"
CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="-oss voice weather libao -esd amarok xine java mp3 gnutls cups ppds foomatic-db alsa \
hal gimpprint freetype gnome X gtk2 unicode moznocompose moznoirc moznomail kde qt livecd samba \
rdesktop kerberos xscreensaver pda zeroconf wifi gnokii lm_sensors ieee1394 logitech-mouse xinerama \
bluetooth irda sms quotas dvb nvidia  \
xprint dvd theora ogg a52 kdeenablefinal win32codecs v4l xvid network dvdread fame \
quicktime -kerberos winbind libclamav subversion ruby svg ffmpeg nsplugin \
wmf 7Zip visualization accessibility css audiofile artswrappersuid musicbrainz \
gphoto2 povray scanner musepack dvdr jack new-login commercial kerberos \
mono pam_console pwdb dbus firefox acpi kqemu esd pcmcia openexr rar dri aac dlloader \
fat hfs jfs xfs ntfs reiserfs cjk cdda dts imap flash jabber msn yahoo icq irc lj aim bidi rss dxr3 \
cairo sysfs xpm nptl nptlonly reiser4 gs dv lzo mjpeg mmx speex slp fftw real joystick asf xvmc mythtv v4l2 cpudetection \
matroska vcd libcaca sndfile plugin inkjar effects streams skins wxwindows xosd extraicons speech extramodules mail -apm \
config_wizard krb4 dga lcd chm spreadsheet webservices pdf xsl ext-man ext-rtf ext-tex pascal clearcase ada glitz \
gcj switch_all_desktops ipod flac exscalibar ole evo avahi stream live kdehiddenvisibility tiff usb kipi aiglx musicbrainz x264 3dfx pulseaudio \
x264 dv lame mp3rtp udev cdr beagle dvi djvu libnotify bzip2 aalib mng startup-notification openal jingle gsm dbox2"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
LINGUAS="en en_US af ar az bg bn br bs ca cs cy da de el en_GB eo es et eu fa fi fr fy ga gl he hi hr hu is it ja kk km ko lt lv mk mn ms nb nds nl nn pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw se sk sl sr sr@Latn ss sv ta tg tr uk uz vi zh_CN zh_TW es_AR es_ES fy_NL ga_IE gu gu_IN nb_NO nn_NO pt_PT sv_SE zh"
MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s "
PORTAGE_NICENESS="8"
FEATURES="parallel-fetch"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/ /etc"
VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev fglrx glint i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv nvidia r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo epson"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse acecad aiptek calcomp citron digitaledge dmc dynapro elo2300 elographics fpit hyperpen jamstudio joystick magellan microtouch mutouch palmax penmount spaceorb summa synaptics tek4957 wacom ur98 vmmouse void wacom"
source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf
LIRC_DEVICES="audio audio_alsa"


Then the /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
/usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon
$PORTDIR_OVERLAY
"


I think this is it.