include stage3 and portage [solved]

ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

Hi,
i'm tired!!

, i was trying to install gentoo for a week now; but no one says i'm a failure, i already feel so. :cry:

but instade of downloading stage3 and portade every time i "fail", any posiblity to include (stage3 and portage) to the minimal cd?
if could, what the commants i need to tar from the cd?

i am nowbe to gentoo,

hope still there.

regards,

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject:

ahmed76,

Its not a failure - indeed you learn much more when things go wrong and you fix them then you do when everything just works. You will have a much better understanding now.

You can fetch the stage3 and portage snapshot on other media if you want to. e.g. CDROM or USB drive.
The minimal install CD has an option to run from memory, to free up your CD drive to do this sort of thing.
However, if your network operates from the liveCD, you are probably downloading the files to the wrong place.

The stage3 tarrball needs to be fetched to /mnt/gentoo after your root partition is mounted there. If you get it out of order, the install proceeds in your RAM.
After the stage3 is untarred in /mnt/gentoo, the portage snapshot needed to be downloaded to /mnt/gentoo/usr.
/mnt/gentoo/usr is created by untaring the stage3, so again, order is important.

The stage3 tarball does not change very often but the portage snapshot is updated dailiy, so its not practical to include them on the minimal liveCD.

Post here with what you did, what you expected to happen and what appeared to happen and we will try to talk you through the install. It occurs to me that you may have the wrong hamdbook, you need this onefor the minimal install. The other one is for the Graphical Install, which has reported problems at the moment.
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ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

thanks man,
another issue has show off, i am trying to solve but still i could not figure it out.
fdisk, it does not show the exist partions. but when i created the hda1, show me some thing like this:

Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

From the HandBook

"We first create a small boot partition. Type "n" to create a new partition, then "p" to select a primary partition, followed by "1" to select the first primary partition. When prompted for the first cylinder, hit enter. When prompted for the last cylinder, type "+32M" to create a partition 32 Mbyte in size:"

Did you do exactly that? You can start over by quitting fdisk without applying the changes. If you need to, you can delete all existing partitions with the "d" command in fdisk. (Also explained in the Handbook).

ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

thanks for your reply,
yes, followed exactly what in the book; i did it many time to be frank!
however, but the last time i did it i noticed this Weird thing. and i also noticed that there is a missing space from the hda. i have an 80G, but i could see only about appr. 76G :evil:

i need the 4G back!
acculty the 4G, :cry:

does not bother me much, but i could not repartition the hard disk now. i tryed to delete the old pations but, the fdisk could not locate any old partions.

any suggestions?
thanks
ahmed

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

ahmed76,

cyrillic · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:01 am Post subject:

ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

Well, i would like to thank you all for your post and quick responce.

ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

I just found someone have posted the same problem but in this link
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-537666.html
but did not mentioned how it was solved.

Paapaa · l33t Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 955 Location: Finland

I repeat:

Please, do it again. First tell me what "fdisk -l /dev/hda" shows (or "fdisk -l" as cyrillic suggested)? Then follow the steps in handbook step by step (starting with deleting the old partitions) and please post the input (what you wrote - all the commands, all the enters...) and output (what you saw) in every step.

ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

i was beating a dead horse. :lol:

I did what you said "fdisk -l" and i found i was on hdc instead of hda.
right now i am on stage3 and every thing running fine "so far"

thanks a lot.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject:

Hi.

In case you're wondering why your /dev/hda showed as having a few MB, probably around 50 - 60MB, the answer is simple: it's your cd drive. :wink:

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ahmed76 · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 22

thinks jmbsvicetto for this info. i was really wondering and i wanted someone to inform me about it,