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Headrush
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 Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| taipan67 wrote: | Headrush is absolutely right about it being unlikely that the same LiveCD would give varying performance. I did say the ideas were slightly bizarre - i never said they made sense  . They don't make much sense to me, & i know where i'm going with them...
Tell you what - humour me. Try the | Code: | | livecd root # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo |
command, & see what happens... What have you got to lose? |
He got to the Grub prompt before and tab completion showed his kernel, so if he can't mount it now, we are talking major problems and not just a configuration problem 
Good advice taipan67, wasn't meaning to question your ideas or be insulting.  |
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taipan67
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Headrush wrote: | | Good advice taipan67, wasn't meaning to question your ideas or be insulting. |
Don't worry, i'm not insulted  . I would like to satisfy my own curiosity about whether the filesystem-type makes a difference, though...
The whacky theory is that, in the case of kernels started from an initrd-image (such as those on installation CD's), ext2 is usually built-in, while other filesystems are supported by modules. If an ext2 partition mounts & a reiserfs one doesn't, might the support-module not be activated correctly?
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Headrush
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Can you try booting the LiveCD with this option: | Code: | | gentoo root=/dev/hda3 |
and let me know what happens. |
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Cyberian-ZH
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
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I gave up trying to install Gentoo.
So... I had someone to do it for me via SSH.
But now I am having problem with install user graphical interface (xorg).
Emerge has failed to download it.
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=> '/usr/portage/distfiles/libpng-1.2.8.tar.bz2'
Resolving belnet.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
!!! Couldn't download libpng-1.2.8.tar.bz2. Aborting.
root@cygen cyberian # _
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What is wrong with Emerge? Its been failing all DLs I am making.
EDIT: Okay, I got Xorg installed. But it would not configure.
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root@cygen cyberian # Xorg -configure
bash: Xorg: command not found
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taipan67
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| Cyberian-ZH wrote: | Okay, I got Xorg installed. But it would not configure. | Code: |
root@cygen cyberian # Xorg -configure
bash: Xorg: command not found
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There are a couple of commands for this. I use | Code: | | root@cygen cyberian # xorgconfig |
...but that requires you to know some things about your hardware:- Which driver your graphics need; What the Horizontal sync & Vertical refresh rate's of your monitor are.
There's another command that try's to do it all for you, but i can't remember it's name, sorry.
Now that you're up & running, you would improve your chances of getting good, quick answers to your questions by starting new topics for these problems. In this case, a new topic in the 'Desktop Environments' forum, called something like 'How to configure xorg?' would attract the attention of people who aren't already watching this topic.
Don't take that as a slap on the wrist - it takes time to learn how to make the best use of the forums .
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Cyberian-ZH
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks a lot, you guys (or gals) been great help! |
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kotik
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| Where could I get a tutorial to install Gentoo. I tried yesterday but got stuck when i had to start emerging stuff. It wouldnt download anything. |
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