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Ridley
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 Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:59 am Post subject: Question about DevFS and Live (Bootable) CDs [answered] |
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I am installing Gentoo via PCLinuxOS, a liveCD based on MandrakeMove. (I am doing this because this and MandrakeMove are the only distros I can get to load and read my SATA drive [yes, I tried a 2.6 experimental LiveCD])
The Installation Guide says | Quote: | Knoppix users (and people that install Gentoo from an installation medium that does not use DevFS) should now bind-mount the /dev structure. If you use one of our LiveCDs you can skip this step.
Code listing 3: Bind-mounting /dev
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/dev
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev |
Whereas the Alternative installation method HOWTO says | Quote: | ...At this point, you can pick up with the standard install documentation at step 6. However, when you're asked to mount the proc system, issue the following commands instead:
Code listing 3.1: Bind-mounting two important filesystems
# mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev |
(I didn't follow the other steps because PCLinuxOS lets you login as root and uses /root as root's home directory)
My Question is, how do I determine whether or not the system which I am using to install gentoo uses the /dev filesystem and which method do I use (once I find out) in order to successfully and correctly chroot into the new gentoo system?
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My Hardware:
P4 on an ABIT IS7 Board (Intel ICH5)
512M Ram
80G SATA
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Ridley
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:46 am Post subject: |
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Typed dmesg and found | Code: | | Mounted devfs on /dev |
So I guess that answers my question, however I found no instances of "proc" in the dmesg, so I don't know what to do about that.
If anyone has any ideas or completed a similar installation, I would appreciate any input |
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michaelb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Well, you're always going to mount proc. I don't think it really matters if you bind mount your existing proc, or just to a
| Code: | | # mount -t proc /mnt/gentoo/proc |
Either way it should have the same effect. In the UNIX world, proc isn't really a filesystem, its just a handy way of representing system information as if they were files, so you can do things like cat and grep them.
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Ridley
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply
should I mount proc before or after I chroot?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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you should mount everything you're going to mount to /mnt/gentoo/whatever before you chroot.
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Ridley
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, before I emerged the system without mounting proc, and there was no proc folder in /mnt/gentoo (which, after chrooting was / of course)
Will this be a problem later, or did I just not have my processes represented as files during that time, therefor I couldn't grep them etc? |
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michaelb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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I honestly don't know what that will do to you. If any of the ebuilds try to look at proc, they would complain, so if you have completed the install without error, you should be okay.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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| Had a power outage sometime after the emerge completed, so i don't know if I had errors. I guess my best bet is to continue as normal, and if I run in to any problems with packages/programs, I'll know I probably have toi re-emerge the package... or everything. Thanks though |
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