Do I need this step?

shanenin · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:13 am Post subject: Do I need this step?

This last time I installed gentoo(couple of days ago) I used my old printed verion of the 1.4 instlall guide. I was reading over the new guide, and it says I need two extra steps. I am pretty sure I left these out. Should that have that been a problem?

knefas · l33t Joined: 21 Dec 2003 Posts: 828

I'm not sure, but don't think procs are so important... I think no, no problems... Isn't it working right now?

shanenin · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:25 am Post subject:

it seems to be working fine. I was hoping someone could clarify why those lines are in the new guide, but not the old, and how important it they really are.
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

Those steps are in the directions because they are needed. I know some programs need proc to be mounted and used to work.

mattjgalloway · l33t Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 761 Location: Coventry, UK

/proc is a pseudo-filesystem, and in it there is information about the processes running. It is in effect a way of accessing the memory locations held by a running program.

During installation you may need to mount this. I guess if you got through install without needing it, then fine. But make sure it's in your /etc/fstab

shanenin · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject:

I figured it out(why I was confused). In the gentoo-1.4 guide they have you mount proc on proc after you have you have unpacked you stage tarball. this way the directory /mnt/gentoo/proc is already made. So their is not need for the line mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc.

In the new install instructions they have you mount proc before you unpack your stage tarball. That is why you have to issue the command mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc so you have something to mount proc on.

I am not sure why they have you mount proc earlier in the new install guide. I also am not sure why they have the proc line slightly different
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
instead of
mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

It does not seem to make any difference which way you do it
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snekiepete · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 306 Location: WISCONSIN

you will have troubles emerging grub without /proc mounted

chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:

my philosophy: read the install manual. If it says optional before what you want to(or dont want to), or the step is for a different system architecture, then you dont have to do it. If i doesn't say optional then do it
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