Installed succesfully, I think...now here's my issue list!

wildbillg · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

Hi there,

I just installed Gentoo on my old pentium 2. I used the universal live CD, did a stage 3 install of 2.4.24, and just put the package disc in there and tried to get some other stuff on there as well. I'm not sure of my success level with the install of this OS, (I have no eth0 coming up, which means no network or internet, among other things), but I am seeing some things that are clearly incorrect...

here is the list of things I'm seeing during the boot:

lilo 22.5.8 boot menu...

Then a whole bunch of "start up" stuff starts flying by...it's mostly green "OK". But then I get a red star that says "You need to set /etc/hostname to a valid hostname

After that, I get

modprobe: can't locate module /dev/Boot (I get this 5 times in a row)

Then, it's

fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/BOOT
The superblock could not be reached or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else) then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock.

Then another red star:

* Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed.

So then I can give the root password for maintenance, or I can hit Ctrl-D to skip it and just keep booting...

Not sure what to do to fix this glitch in my boot script, so I thought I'd start there. (I get some more issues if I ignore this and keep booting, but I guess I'll deal with those after I get past this).

And finally, if I skip the maintenance mode and just keep booting, I eventually end up logging in as root and then I'm just in the shell.

I'm trying to emerge KDE, and Gnome, which seems to work until it gets to the end, and it's trying to hit the internet for a bunch of stuff and can't...I have no internet yet on the Gentoo machine...

Should I be trying to install this stuff off of the Package CD? I'm a total n00b here...

Thank you in advance!

discowombat · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject:

ok, first you're gonna have to boot your system back up w/ the livecd, remount your drive, and chroot again. then you want to

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

for desktop env u could try "xfce4"......personally i found it great

wildbillg · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

Rainmaker · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 3:53 am Post subject:

why doesn't your network work?

You get any errors? Does ifconfig list the network card? Have you tried modprobing the module for your card? Is it static or DHCP?

PS. Enlightenment rules

wildbillg · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 18

Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I'll try to answer your questions below...

ch0da · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 33

You might want to try eth1 instead of eth0, because I had that problem with my ethernet card when I first installed.

curtis119 · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

If it's a wireless CARD then you need to emerge pcmcia-cs. You also need to make sure to enable pcmcia in the kernel, edit the /etc/conf.d/net and set eth0 to dhcp. And I'm sure I'm leaving other things out.

All of this is clearly covered in the installation handbook. I think you need to re-read it.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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mmilhome · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:55 pm Post subject:

I am having the same problem here, my /etc/hostname is correct and my /etc/fstab is correct also...... :cry:

Any more steps to check?

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