having trouble with installation

maomao0407 · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 65

Hi I want to try linux but can't seem to install without problems

my pc spec: p3 800,128 ram,20 g,dvdrom,cdrom,gf2mx,creative soundblaster vibra.

I use the 2 i386 live cds and used stage 3 for install. I followed exaclty what the installation guide on the net to install.

I downloaded ,compiled and installed the vanilla sources kernel, 2.4.22.

After install and reboot,the grub loaded alright,then during the modprobing part i get an error message:

modprobe: can't locate /etc/rtc
can't locate etc/misc/rtc something like that

I can login as root but then when i did emerge xfree i get an error at the
part where it tries to create dir fonts.it seems xfree didn't install properly.

Now i can't startx or login with a graphical interface.

any help would be greatly appreciated. ta

rockfly · Apprentice Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 179

about the rtc, you need to check something like rts stores time in gmt , or something with /dev/rtc in making you're kernel

maomao0407 · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 65

so where do i go to configure this option and is it during compiling the kernel or somewhere else?

ian! · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:20 am Post subject:

maomao0407 · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Posts: 65

thx alot ,I think that should solve the problem.

now going to recompile kernel !