Failed to install, GUI, multiple questions.

[DONAHUE]

Only tutorials for installing grub on a floppy tell you to insert a floppy
grub ordinarily is installed to the MBR of a hard drive
procedures for install with the minimal install cd are in the gentoo handbook and when closely followed produce working systems

[dE_logics]

"ERROR, could not map/dev/sda1 to anything in the device map"

[dE_logics]

Same goes with the CMD installer.

[cwr]

I know it may seem counter-productive, but I really think you'd be better off
if you did what's called a Stage 3 install from the command line. I spent ten
minutes or so yesterday installing Ubuntu and Fedora from LiveCDs, admittedly
into VirtualBox containers, and in both cases everything worked fine; Gentoo's
GUI installer isn't like that.

In fact, one approach might be install, say, Ubuntu, from a live CD onto a small
disk partition and then use that to install Gentoo. Could be quicker overall. Or
just install Ubuntu under VirtualBox in Windows, and play with that until you're
comfortable with some of the basic Linux concepts. (I run modern but not very
quick hardware, and VirtualBox is more that fast enough for general tasks;
heavy video processing, for instance, would be beyond it.)

But if you want to go ahead, then try reading the Gentoo x86 Quick Install guide,
which is on this site's doc page. You need a Stage3 file, and a portage snapshot,
and some way of booting some sort of linux so that you can partitition the drive.
You end up logging into a shell prompt, and you then build the rest of the system
from there. The advantage is that you can see what you are doing at all times,
and hence you can ask very specific questions and (probably) get useful answers.

As for some of the current questions, you probably want to start with four partitions,
though opinions differ - around 64MB for /boot (grub), around 8-16G for / (root),
8G for /usr/portage (sources), 4-8G for /home (your stuff) would be a starting
point, though you can halve or double those sizes depending. The main advantage
of using so many separate partitions is that it's easier to change and update things
without writing off the whole system.

Grub doesn't need a floppy (unless you're booting off one). If you enter the command
grub (you probably need to be the super-user) you get a prompt:
grub >
You then enter commands, for instance:
grub > root (hd0,0)
grub > setup (hd0,0)
grub > quit
adds grub to the MBR of the first hard drive. Note that grub is neurotic about spaces
in its commands, and uses zero-based labelling for partitions where everything else
uses one. Read the documentation carefully first.

Good luck, anyway - Will
(I forgot - you might want a swap partition in there as well as the four I mentioned;
on laptops, especially, it's used for suspending the system more than swapping.)

[dE_logics]

I want an x64 installation.

[dE_logics]

This guy tried a manual install...and the results were same -

https://bugs.gentoo.org/243064

So...no options but UBUNTU.



I'll keep a check for new versions of Gentoo...and when this'll be fixed, I'll install it.

[Inodoro_Pereyra]

[dE_logics]

The bug is still new.

[cwr]

[monsm]