Urgent

Portaged · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject: Urgent

Hi, I am currently installing Gentoo. But I allready ran into my first problem, I don't know how it works... I am currently in the 'first interactive phase'. So I can type install, but then it says: "too few arguments". What argument should I say? I have a laptop, if that is usefull. Please help me.

alvinsipraga · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 4

If you're using the most recent Universal Install, type:

SnakeByte · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject:

Hi Portaged,

a few more information would help in helping you.

What do you mean with first interactive phase?

-> console in a chroot environment in a running system ( knoppix? , gentoo? )
-> new system booted, local console
-> ...

Can you tell us which kind of CPU you have ( P2, P3, P4, AMD64, ... )
and which gentoo handbook you refer to?

Do you use the Gentoo handbook?

Where in the Handbook are you?

kind regards

RlC · Guru Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Posts: 358 Location: austria

well, installing gentoo isn´t that easy

read the installation docs
they are also on live-cd, read the message when bootup has finished

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hm too slow

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Portaged · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks, but considering that English isn't my native language and I am just 13 years of age, I don't speak English that well. So I don't understand it completely. Can't you just say what I should type if I just want to install it?

Portaged · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

I have got an Pentium M 740. And about the handbook... I haven't started with it... Because I thought it was as easy as Ubuntu... And I couldn't jump in from the middle, because they did things in the start that I haven't done.
I am installing it from the CD on top of windows...

Portaged · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject:

And with 'first interactive phase', I mean the black screen with 'livecd root #' on it. Or can you tell me how to exit the wizard? Or is that dangerous for my system?

Lazy_Dewd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 144

[dutch]Ik kom uit België en kan helpen indien je iets niet verstaat of indien je hulp nodig hebt. stuur me gewoon een pm met het probleem (reply kan soms een tijd duren aangezien ik niet altijd internet beschikbaar heb). Er is ook een nederlandstalig forum maar spijtiggenoeg is dat niet zo snel als dit forum.[/dutch]

told him I could help him in dutch if he needed it

here is a guide in dutch. Don't know what version it is written for though.

link

there is actually no wizard in gentoo but you have to manually install it. this is not as difficult as it first seems
there is no danger in exiting the installation. just shut your system down by using 'shutdown -h now'
if you mounted some disks, first unmount them before you power off by the button on your computer itself

hint: read through the installation manual first before you start. it will help you alot

cazort · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

cyrillic · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: