emerge -k sys-apps/reiserfsprogs problems...

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

I finally have my system up and running with gentoo after 3 long weeks. YAY. but i have a problem...i cant seem to emerge the reiserfsprogs. i have no idea why. i have done an emerge sync and emerge portage and they worked fine. so if someone could give me some hints as to what i need to do it would be appreciated. Also i was wondering if i needed/good idea if i ran emerge system and if there were any other thigns i need to run and what options with the emerge system or emerge world. thanks for any replies and thanks for the help to get my system up and running. this is truly the best forums on the net

one last thing....anyone know of an estimated time to emerge xfree86 and to compile it?

jief · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:16 am Post subject:

what about you try this:

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

that worked thanks! i was going by what the install guide said..seems theres alot of errors in there :wink:

would it be a good idea to run emerge system? or nethign else i need to do like that?

jief · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:28 am Post subject:

emerge -k is only to be used while you do a GRP install. if you aren't doing this, use emerge packagename instead.

as for emerge -u system, it depends of a few things. did you start from stage1 for example?

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

nope i did a stage3 install. also does the emerge reiserfsprogs take a while...its kinda stuck on /sbin/mkreiserfs? is that normal?

jief · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:38 am Post subject:

ok first of all young grasshoper, you will need to learn to be patient with Gentoo. Compiling takes times. If you want fast installs, get a redhat ISO.

for the emerge system. no need for it. you might want to do a :

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

i have learned to be patient....i was just wondering if that was normal thats all. it acted like it was hangin up and it still does but newayz ill let it run. If havent learned anythign(but i have learned alot) doing this Gentoo install its to be patient...and for the redhat ISO...i cant stand RH. and thanks for the tips on the emerge sync && emerge -u world. thanks for your help.

jtp755 · l33t Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 691 Location: USA

i have fixed my lil problem....for some reason the kernel stopped or somethign so i rebooted and tried again and boom it worked

thanks for your help tho.