Install errors; emerge <kernelversion>,&other prob

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Hello again,

Since lately opening a topic i tried alot of other things. But i still can't get it to work.
I open this new thread because it's an other problem.

This is what i did :
1. boot Gentoo Live CD (universial-x86)
2. check date -> was correct, net-setup eth0 -> no problems either
3. fdisk -> made partitions:
/dev/hda1 NTSF (windows xp)
/dev/hda2 W95 ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 FAT32 (shared,i guess /dev/hda2 is the ext'd of this one)
/dev/hda6 ext2 (the boot partition, set to ext2)
/dev/hda7 swap (the swap partition)
/dev/hda8 ext3 (the / partition for gentoo)
4. All gone well with fdisk.
5. #swapon /dev/hda7 -> no problems
6. #mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/gentoo -> good
7. #mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot -> good
8. #mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo/boot -> good
9. #cd /mnt/gentoo -> good
10. #tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2 -> good
11. #tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050303.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr -> all good again
12. #cd /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage; mkdir distfiles; -> good
13. #cp /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* distfiles/ -> all good
14. #mirrorselect -a -s4 -o | grep 'GENTOO_MIRRORS=' >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf -> no problems
15. #cp -L /etc/resolvf.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf -> thinking of it, i think i forget this, is this bad?
16. #mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc -> good
17. #chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash -> good
18. #env-update -> good
19. #source /etc/profile -> all good
20. #nano -w /etc/fstab -> inserted my boot,swap&root partition here, following the guide, all good
21. #emerge gentoo -> some errors at end, in handbook it says <your-kernel-version>, but i didn't know which i had, so i just did gentoo
22. #emerge genkernel; genkernel --udev --menuconfig all -> good
23. The handbook gives 2 options now: #make && make modules_install -> doesn't work
#make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install -> doesn't work
I didn't know what to do next, i'm kinda confused now. Tried to install it alot ways, but didn't work, i really need some help.
I followed all these steps i listed here exactly but as you can see i forgot number 15, i don't know which kernel version at number 21, and number 23 didn't work at all.
I need some advice with these steps and with my install.

Thanks in advance,
Kevin

adaptr · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:40 pm Post subject:

21. emerge gentoo-sources; gentoo is a graphical file browser a la wincommander.
23. cd /usr/src/linux; make will only work if you run it from the source directory.

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Thanks for your reply,

21. is gentoo-sources the kernel then? cause at that point i need to #emerge <yourkernelversionhere>?
23. and how do i get to the source dir again?

I will do get some more info on that other thingy later on.

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Bumpitybump

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject:

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Okay, sorry for the bump Maedhros, was kinda impatient :oops:

Well, if i enter cd /usr/src/linux, it says that there isn't such a directory, but that was when i only did #emerge gentoo
instead of #emerge gentoo-sources.
Will it work when i do #emerge gentoo-sources you think?

Tia,
Kevin

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:34 pm Post subject:

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Ah, thanks for you helping me

I will try to install gentoo again later on, when i finish my damn math

I will report back whether install has worked or not.

Regards,
Kevin

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Well, i'm back now.
And i'm disappointed to tell it has failed again.

This time i have done all well. The guide told me to reboot, so i did. I booted into Live CD again, and i had to put in these commands:
#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -> already was mounted
#mkdir /usr/portage/packages -> can't, this is the error: "mkdir:cannot create directory '/usr/portage/packages': Read-only file system"

Now is my question: what to do? i'm almost done and then i get this, very frustrating. I'm now on my fathers laptop, so i can tell exact errors.

Tia,
Kevin

nixnut · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject:

Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Okay, i now chrooted back again after mounting everything again, thanks for the tip.
But now the handbook tells me to #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
The error i get is: "mount:special device /dev/cdrom does not exist"

What to do now? (sorry if i'm being really dumb!)

Still thankful for all help,
Kevin

nixnut · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject:

Eh, what kind of install are you doing? Stage 1, 2 or 3?
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Kevin89 · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Stage 3, and my dad had to use the laptop, so i had the cancel installtion, im going to partition it all over again,
and then i'm somehow going to do everything right.
This is really hard for me

Regards