I downloaded this iso: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/x86/livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso burned it at 16x, track at once with Easy CD Creator 5, on a Windows 2000 box. When booting, I get past all the kernel messages, it starts to create its symlinks, then I get an infinite loop with this error repeating forever: zisofs: zisofs_inflate returned -3, inode = 469622, index = 207, fpage = 7, xpage = 7, avail_in = 0, avail_out = 12, ai = 4, ao = 4096 I checked the md5sum on the iso file, and it was correct. I also burned a second disc at 8x, disc at once for comparison. Same error. The system in question is an ABIT dual PIII 866, 256MB RAM, two 30GB drives striped with onboard RAID, Geforce 2 ultra. It currently has Windows 2000 on it, which I intend to blow away when installing Gentoo.
The UT2003 iso fared no better. During my first attempt, I got a couple of: read: Input/output error during the copying & symlinking. It eventually got through init, and to a login prompt. The x-setup failed with some kind of odd error I didn't make a note of. Back in the shell, I got unusual errors. Trying to run 'more' gave me a bus error, etc. I burned another copy to brand-name media instead of generic. I got the same Input/output error during the symlinking, then this series of errors: INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes there were six of these under Id c1, c2, c3, etc. eventually it just hangs with the last message reading: INIT: no more processes in this runlevel. My first suspicion would be that it's incompatible with dual cpu, but it did seem to detect them both. It even offered such messages as "your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTTR values" etc. My bios doesn't permit disabling the second cpu, so I can't easily test that.
For what it's worth, it DID work on my Athlon box. It just doesn't like something about that dual PIII system.
I removed my HP 2x burner, and stuck in an ancient NEC 4x4 cdrom changer, instead. That fixed the problem. No idea why it's not compatible with the HP.
Well, we're now using cloop instead of zisofs so I'll close this bug too ;)
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
