2006.1 installer emerging coldplug

nodyl

I've been trying to install Gentoo onto my Dell Inspiron 6000 and been having a lot of trouble with it. First I tried to use the 2007 installer, but it would just freeze once it got to the desktop. Then I tried to do an install from Knoppix, but I was unable to configure my kernel to work properly. Now I am using the 2006.1 installer, but it breaks at the same point every time.

I am not able to highlight on the gentoo installer; the words just begin to scroll up and down and then the highlighting disappears. In any case, without the date and time, the log says

Genkernel emerged. Beginning kernel compile.
Exception received during 'Building kernel': EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge:
Could not emerge sys-apps/coldplug-20040920-r1!
Traceback(most recent call last):
File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 197, in run
self._install_stepps[self._install_step]['function']()
File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py" line 787, in build_kernel
exitstatus = self._portage.emerge("coldplug")
File "/opt/installer/GLIPortage.py", line 265, in emerge
raise GLIException("EmergePackageError", "fatal", "emerge", "Could not emerge " +
pkg + "!")
GLIException: EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge
sys-apps/coldplug-20040920-r1!

the output says:

!!! Error: the >=sys-fs/undev-089 package conflicts with another package:
!!! the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.

From what I've been reading, coldplug is supposed to be obsolete and my computer should be using udev. I don't understand what I am doing to make it try to emerge that during the install.

I really really want Gentoo on my computer, but I need to have it working soon, before school starts. Please help.

didymos · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:16 am Post subject:

Get a minimal CD image, then just follow the handbook. The installer is known to be flaky.
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nodyl · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:31 am Post subject:

Hopefully this isn't too stupid of a question, but will this install differ greatly from using Knoppix? I failed using that method which is why I turned to the older installer; I kept getting fatal errors in my kernel. After a week of that, I just wanted my computer to work again. I notice that the two use the same section handbook so I wonder if I am looking in the right place?

Ehnvis · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 305 Location: /dev/random

I guess you followed the handbook when you where on the Knoppix CD (as thats the only way to install gentoo from knoppix, ie manual install) so there is no change there from the minimal cd.

How did you configure the kernel while on knoppix cd, manual with make menuconfig or with genkernel?
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didymos · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:07 am Post subject:

nodyl · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:23 am Post subject:

I meant I got fatal errors after I installed gentoo and rebooted my machine. This is the link to the thread I wrote before for help. I was mistaken when I said my problem was solved...

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-575301.html

didymos · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:17 am Post subject:

Well, the error you were getting earlier could be from the kernel, or it could have been a grub configuration thing. Here's some Inspiron specific info, which you may or may not have seen:

Dell Inspiron 6000

Install Gentoo Linux on a Dell Inspiron 6000

http://socrates.homelinux.org/index.php?page=DellInspiron6000

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~rashmi/linux.html#GentooInspiron

There's plenty more on Google
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