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bonedaddyhimself
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 Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: Installing Gentoo: Take 2! Suggestions needed! |
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Well, I tried to install Gentoo and all seemed to go well until I ran into a few problems. I'm a noob BTW.
My Setup AthlonXP, Stage2 install-gentoo-sources-kernel-2.4.22
Partitions=winblows(fat32) ~ boot ~ swap ~ root
ReiserFS
1. The first problem I ran into was that I couldn't modules-update. I even tried to force it but no go. I looked in the /etc dir and the file itself was not there! The only mod listed in the /lib/modules/kernel was the NVidia package I had just added the step before which seemed to go well.
2.Since I was so close to completion, I continued on. Towards the end I couldn't set a root password (passwd not a command OSLT) I couldn't add a user either.
3. When I rebooted, I got the following error:
Mount command failed with error
Line 1 mount command not found
mounting proc at /proc
Give root password for maintenance or CTRL-D for normal startup.
Ctrl-D just reboots the machine nor can I give the root password since I could never set one up in the first place.
I'm going to d-load the live CD to have for the second go around. I did read in this forum where a user stated that fstab is case-sensitive. I too named the root file system ReiserFS instead of reiserfs.
The problem is that my FS is read only. I tried following the instructions to chroot into the FS to make changes. I had no luck and I'm not sure that I'm even doing it correctly.
I would love to be able to get in and make a change to the fstab and see if that helps.
Thanks for any help you can provide. If i must reinstall so be it. Even with the problems I've had, the install is not too difficult. Being a noob does make things a bit frustrating though.
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azlan
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Location: Seattle WA USA
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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not to worry 
you´ll get it.
first off, the command passwd should allow you to change your root password.
boot back into your live cd mount and chroot back over (just like in the install guide)
check to make sure you have the command passwd with:
also you probably need to check your /etc/fstab it sounds to me like you are not seeing your mount points.
also you may not have built your modules correctly so go back into your menuconfig
| Code: | #cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig |
check to make sure that you have module loading enabled. or just build the things you need in to the kernel explicitly.
make, clean && make bzImage modules modules_install
add your new image to /boot and try again
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bonedaddyhimself
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Azlan!
I'll give it a go.
cheers
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