Knoppix Gentoo Install; baselayout error... /dev/shm

geoffs · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Canada

Hello, I am installing gentoo onto a poweredge 2300 that the livecd didn't like. I am now using knoppix to boot, I managed to ALMOST bootstrap it, but it errors out on baselayout package with:

geoffs · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 35 Location: Canada

ok, well I just linked /tmp with /dev/shm and everything seems to have worked.

For future reference if anyone knows of a better way, or the 'proper' way to circumvent this error...post it here.
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Vynce · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 3

Same problem encountered, I made the same link to /tmp and it works too. I used Knoppix to install gentoo, maybe this is due to this installation medium !

apberzerk · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:32 am Post subject:

I had the same problem but was wondering if you could clarify. When you say you linked /tmp with /dev/shm, what exactly do you mean? Something like "ln -s /dev/shm /tmp" or something different?

apberzerk · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

In case any of you were wondering, I found another thread full of people with the same problem. The Gentoo Installation Guide says to bind mount /dev to /mnt/gentoo/dev, but apparently the solution is to NOT do this. So I guess just don't do ANYTHING to /mnt/gentoo/dev.

nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

strange, this never happened to me using knoppix for installation. I guess they removed shm recently.

apberzerk: not mounting /dev to /mnt/gentoo/dev could really cause trouble. Mounting shm manually might be a better workaround:

varikin · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 16

I had the same problem, i fixed it by