New Guy installing gentoo x86 on laptop a few questions

GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

Hey guys, I'm installing gentoo x86 on my Dell 2 Gig processor with 1 gig of ram and 80 gig of hard drive space. I'm still installing Gentoo x86 on it, i was up till 2 this morning because its fun to complie, anyways i have a couple of questions.

1) is gentoo going to be a GUI OS when i finish installing, if not how do i get it to do so
2) I'm a little confused when it comes to the make.conf files in nano....do i have to do anything here or is it already done for me?

Thanks for the help

front243 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Denmark

1. It's complete up to you! A basic installation from the handbook with give you a basic console-based installation, continue here if you wish a GUI :arrow:

X Server Howto, KDE Howto, Gnome Howto, Fluxbox Howto

2. You have to configure your make.conf for your configuration and architecture. Follow the handbook's instructions and you will have a good and basic configuration. Also search the forums for CFLAGS and USE flags, they come up regularly.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject:

GooRoo363,

When you finish the Install Guide, you will have a system that boots its own kernel and gives you a command prompt.
You will want to install other things on it to make it useful. Gentoo if about choice, unless you have already choosen a GUI, then its not yet installed.

See the Desktop Guides at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml
Bookmark that page - you will need it.

You need to set a few things in /etc/make.conf but the defualts are sensible. Exactly what you need to set depends on your hardware and what software you want to run. You have a file called /etc/make.conf.example which contains most of the options and a lot of commentary to explain what they do.

The way is works, in common with lots of Linux software, is the the defualts are 'hard coded' and entries in /etc/make.conf are only required if you want to change the defualts. There are a few exceptions though.

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GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

ok cool, but with the make.conf this is where i get a little confuzled. Because the handbook doesnt show you where you should input the data, do you type it in under what is already there??

front243 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Denmark

GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

ok soooo if i understand this right which i think i might, I have a Pentium 4 processor, so i should select the -march=pentium4 setting?

my aim screen name is, gooroo363 if you guys want to chat to me there too

could someone post what there make.conf looks like, i think it may help me out

sorry for being a pest

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

GooRoo363,

emerge ufed - thats the Use Flag EDitor, also emerge mirrorselect to choose some fast mirrors near you.
There is a man page for make.conf

GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

ooo k thanks guys, when i get home i'll try what you've all said, i think i'm starting to understand it now

if it doesnt work can i post my laptop specs and the make.conf and have you guys help me out???

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject:

GooRoo363,

Post the output of lspci and emerge --info
That will tell us all about your hardware and your settings so far.
We will also need to to know what software you would like to install
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GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

ok will do, i'm trying to look for the commands to get it, and i cant find it, what do i type in for the data?

is ths all i do?

# emerge --info

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject:

GooRoo363,

The commands are

Anon5710 · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject:

I suggest that as soon as everything is ready you upgrade to gcc 3.4
It speeded up my compile time of kde by 3 whole damn hours.
And since my system was just the bare minimum (no extra installed packages it didn't take that long

GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

ok which data do you need theres alot to type

thoffmeyer · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject:

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GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

thanks, i just need a wittle help,

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject:

GooRoo363,

Don't type it - use copy and paste. You can get the data to files with

GooRoo363 · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

ok someone was able to guide me through that part, but now i have another problem

went i run the command

emerge syslog-ng

i get and error:

C compiler cannot create executables
see config.log for more details

????

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: