Few installation issues...

venkat · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject: Few installation issues...

Hi,

I am trying to install gentoo from mdk 9.2 using stage 1 tarball. i follow the handbook found here,

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml

my problems:

Code listing 46: Bind-mounting proc and dev

when i try to bind /dev it complains that /mnt/gentoo/dev doesn't exist. probably a step is missing in the document that says mkdir /mnt/gentoo/dev. i created the directory myself and downloaded generic stage1 from a mirror and tried extracting it from /mnt/gentoo. it started extracting several ./dev files and some of those files couldn't be extracted because it complained about permissions and some mknod's failed. at the end of the extraction, i found a tar error that said process exited from previous errors etc.

i am hesistant to continue with compilation from here. i tried once ignoring this error but ended up with a messed up /dev filesystem. even though i got most of the devices working my cdrom was not recognized at all then.

the handbook also lacks a section on getting devfs configured right for installing from with in another distro. this devfs problem doesnot happen when installing from GRP. i have enable the kernel options for devfs including mount at boot.

any help would be appreciated. i am planning to wait until i get these issues resolved to proceed with my installation.

thanks in advance,

venk@

BiggJ · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject:

What step are you on? I don't remember the install guide mentioning anything about mounting dev ... boot and proc, but not dev.

--BiggJ

venkat · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 9:20 pm Post subject:

Code listing 46: Bind-mounting proc and dev

at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml

sorry i had a wrong link originally...

at the very end of this page, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=4

BiggJ · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:50 pm Post subject:

I am still not seeing where it talks about mounting a dev partiion. Is all your trying to do is format your partitions for and isntall? If so, try following this instead ...

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml

You shouldn't need to mount dev. When you untar the stage# tar ball it will create the directory for you.

--BiggJ

venkat · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:13 am Post subject:

thanks for your reply: at the very end of this link http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=4
it says,
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If you are not installing Gentoo from a Gentoo LiveCD, you need to bindmount /proc and /dev:

Code listing 46: Bind-mounting proc and dev

# mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

this is where i see a problem.

Pubare · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject:

When you were extracting the tarball, did you remember to pass the -p option to tar? I'm not sure if it's what's causing you issues or not, put it sounds like part of it.

venkat · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:20 pm Post subject:

yep, i did. actually i solved the problem at least temporarily. i extracted the tarball before i mounted /proc using -t option & then i ignored the couple of binding mounts.

erezny · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 6:19 am Post subject: READ CAREFULLY

The reason you are having these problems is because you are following directions the manule specificly says not to do if you are installing from a Live CD, which you just said you were. You did not ever have to bind mount anything.