cannot chroot

DaveMorrisroe · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

hello eveyone i am currentyl trying to install gentoo onto my laptot using the live cds and i am now up to the point wher i use the #chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
and i get the error "cannot run command '/bin/bash' no such file or directory"
but when i use the 'ls' command the bin dir is there and there is a file or dir called bash dont know what to do i'm not too sure did i do the mounting right in the the pervious step.

and help would be geratly appreaded quick would be great as i had to come into town to use an internet cafe but any time is cool

Thank you for anything

David Morrisroe

inode77 · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject:

Did you untar your stage tar ball to /mnt/gentoo. IMHO there should be a /mnt/gentoo/bin/bash.

DaveMorrisroe · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

come to think of it mabynot i did do it for the portage tree but maby not for the source stuff

thanks for the quick reply hope it works

inode77 · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:

Just follow the gentoo handbook step by step and you can't go wrong.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml

DaveMorrisroe · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

i had forgoton to extracte one of the tar balls but even after starting the installion again and i deffently extrated both stage the tarball and the snapshot and copyed all the source files from distfiles to my machine i still get the same error, and somthing else this time when i open make.conf or make.conf.example thes two files are compleaty empty wich is kind of stramge and i cant imagen tha the compilation could go ahade with out that file, and i'm still having alot of problems mounting /mnt/gentoo/proc just keppet giving file dose not exisit but then if i try to create the folder it says file already exsits.

have been getting kind of strange little problms from the command line it saying dirtorys do not exsit even if go 'ls' it lists the diectory but when i try to cd to it it says it dose not exist not always if keep chaning to the root and moving around dir by dir i can get around.

any any tips or help would be much help i cant wait to get my getoo system up and running alot more hassale than the likes of suse but i'm sure it will be work it

Thank you
dave morrisroe

inode77 · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:08 pm Post subject:

Strange there is a thread with people that do have similar problems with a stage1 install.

Check the following:
- Is my stage tarball really for my arch? => Check tarball
- Is my stage tarball OK? => Check tarball MD5
- Is my livecd OK? => Check iso MD5 and burn again with low speed.

Post any errormessage you get.

black hole sun · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 245

Okay, download a stage1 (or 2, whatevr you're using) and do:

cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -xvjpf stage?-*.tar.bz2
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DaveMorrisroe · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

I Got That Working Thanks for all your help

Dave