My failed attempt so far

[busa_dude]

In april I attempted to install Gentoo on my Compaq laptop and school/work wouldn't allow me the time to so it so this is my second attempt

I'm hitting a snag in installation. Before I was actually able to get a working kernel on my computer, now, it's kaput!

I have tried like four times and keep getting the snags in the same places so I have actually written down every keystroke I make and maby an outside eye can see the error of my ways


/sbin/ifconfig <---- all is go... eth0 is working with no problems. My WIFI will not work so I just plug in the cable.

ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com <--- Three sucessful pings and the internet is rolling
net-setup eth0 <-- just to make sure..


fdisk /def/hda <--- WindowsXP is on hda1 I have a 98 partition on hda2 Linux /boot is hda5 Linux /swap is on hda6 Linux/root is hda7
I used partition magic to make the partitions and they are in the ext3 format

mke2fs -j /dev/hda5
mke2fs -j /dev/hda7
mkswap /dev/hda6
swapon /dev/hda6
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/gentoo/boot
ls /mnt/cdrom/stages
cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stage3-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2
<a bunch of text flying up the screen>
ls /mnt/cdrom/snapshots
tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20050303.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
cp /mnt/cdrom/disftilfes/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/
nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf

I add in the command for my 64 AMD which was, according to the website K8
This is how my exact line looks letter for letter

CFLAGS="-march=K8 -pipe -O2"

Nothing else is added at this time
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com <---- just to make sure I haven't screwed up up the internet yet and get 3 ping returns

cp -L /etc/resolve.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolve.conf

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile

emerge gentoo-sources

This emerges but it tells me that the website cannot be found to update..
ls -l /usr/src/linux
Does not exist

I do an ls /usr and get a listing
I ls /usr/src and there is nothing there.

This is my snag. What did I type in wrong?

[braindigitalis]

where you wrote 'resolve.conf' the file is 'resolv.conf' without an E.
Also i'm not sure on this but 'K8' may be case sensitive and require a lower-case k. Can someone verify this?

Thanks
Brain
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[dgaffuri]

If it was resolv.conf and not resolve.conf, I just notice than before

[busa_dude]

That was a type-o in my initial post.. I was putting in resolv.conf. I'm going to try the emerge --sync now but I'm also having problems when I go to genkernel... Let me try the --sync now.

[busa_dude]

All goes well now until genkernel all command... I get the message that the command does not exhist... Another time, another thread

Thanks for everyone's help