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Lilalfyalien
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Location: Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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 Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject: Lots of errors! Please please help me |
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I have been trying to install Gentoo by following the handbook's instructions but I seem to be going around in circles. My first problem was when I tried to mount my boot partition:
| Code: | | mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot |
It came up with an error that /mnt/gentoo/boot didn;t exist- so I though fine- I'll create it then...
But then I came across a problem when 'extracting' the portage and stage(?) files- it tells me one of the following:
-That there's an empty header at X?
-That only X amount of bytes were written out of X then an unknown error message pops up
-And most recently I've been getting a not enough space of the disk error
Now the hard drive I've got is only a 10GB- this should be enough shouldn't it?
I was under the impression that when you delete partitions on a disk that all the data in those partitions go too? So why is it saying that I haven't got enough space? If this is not so, how do I format the hard drive with no OS?
I have tried this with different size partitions- no combination works. Does anyone have any ideas to why I can't install Gentoo if I'm following the instructions strictly. I have also tried different versions e.g. when you hit F1 right at the beginning- I've tried both gentoo and gentoo-nofb and I'm using a liveCD (universal version). Please help me it's driving me mad!!! I know it's just something simple....
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WumpusWill
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Location: Music City, USA
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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What does your disk layout look like?
(i.e. /dev/hda1: boot, formatted ext2, 64M
/dev/hda2: swap, formatted swap, 512M
/dev/hda3: /, formatted ext3, 9G)
Have you formatted all of your partitions? Try reformatting them, using mke2fs for your boot partition, mkswap for your swap partition, and mke2fs -j for your / partition. (make sure they are unmounted first, using commands like 'umount /mnt/gentoo/boot')
Something is definitely wrong if you aren't able to write to them after they are correctly formatted and mounted.
Also, you can use the command "df" to display the disk space available on your system.
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Lilalfyalien
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: Thanks |
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Using:
| Code: | | umount /mnt/gentoo/boot |
seemed to help, now I have a new problem- I got to the end of the installation process as described in the handbook with no more problems but when I reboot my system it says that it cannot find an active partition on the HDD, now what have I done wrong? Also is it right that I now have to go through everything again? |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Use fdisk to mark the boot partion has active. It's quite simple you'll see.
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Lilalfyalien
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:23 am Post subject: |
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I've tried to do it all over again. When I come to:
| Code: | | cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r6 |
It says that neither directory exists...and I've looked- they don't! What have I done wrong?
It also won't let me use genkernel I get this message when I try to emerge it:
| Code: | ERROR: media-libs/freetype-2.5.5-r1 failed
Function src-compile, Line 32, Exitcode 2
(no error message) |
 Please tell me how to continue! thanks for your help... I'm not very good at this! |
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