cp -R problem

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

I'm having a bit of a problem when I run the CP -R /mnt/cdrom/distfiles /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles For some reason I get a segmentational fault error and then gentoo crashes. It's done it quite a few times and I don't know how to resolve it. Please help!!!
I have a screen shot I took with my digital cam for anyone who wants it. Just email me and I'll email it to you.

Deathwing00 · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: cp -R problem

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

not yet, but I'll try in install again here in a sec and see what happens and I'll also try to send you that pic if I can find your email address or what ever
Visseroth@hotmail.com

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

ok, getting just a little pissy now and am keeping in mind that no one here is the cause of the problems but I get passed the pc -R problem and get Gentoo installed (or so I think) and got grub somewhat up and running and what the heck fricken happens!?!?!?! the damn thing says, "Error 17. Could not mount selected partition
Press any key to continue"

OK!!! so can someone tell me what I did wrong seeing as how I'm not computer stupid but I am no programmer and to damn F(*&(*&* new to linux and it's all Bill F)*()(*^ Gates fault!!!

Deathwing00

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

OK, I have two hard drives, Win 2K on one and I'm trying to put linux on the other.
I'm setting up the MBR on the second hard drive (the onet that linux is going on) to have grub so when I boot the system I can specify to boot from the second hard drive and if I want to run windows then I'll select it in the menu, but if grub doesn't load properly then I'll tell the bios to boot from the first hard drive and by-pass the problem all together and this way I don't have to worry about messing up the Windows boot sector.
But anyhow my grub configuration goes like this (Assuming this is what you are asking for

default 0
timeout 60
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux Starts Here!!!
root (hd1.0)
kernel (hd1.0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gaming-r3 root=/dev/hdb3 vga=795
initrd (hd1,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gaming-r3

title=Windows 2000
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

ok, there you have it, oh and my patition table for Linux is setup as the document is
hdb1 = boot ext3fs
hdb2 = swap
Hdb3 = root reiserfs

Deathwing00 · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject:

I don't know exactly how to help you on this... let's see:

- you create the partitions
- then you try to copy a directory located in your CD to your hard drive and it doesn't let you
- now you say you are unable to mount the partition

I would suggest you to check again that your partitions are correct and well formatted before trying anything else.

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

when you say formatted you mean mkreiserfs, right?? cause if so I did that! maybe it was something else. There was a error that I got while compiling the kernel, here, let me check to see what it was again......
ahh, "mv bzimage to /boot/kernel-2.4.20-gaming-r3" was unable to move for some reason, could that be the cause of the problem
Oh and as for the cp -R problem, that was solved with the first suggestion you had. it worked, now this is my other problem I've come accross.

AcidTripp · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 31

Don't take this the wrong way, but if your kernel (aka, the operating system itself!) didn't copy correctly, then yeah... that is your problem.
Make sure that reiserfs support is compiled in to the kernel (don't even bother with a module...) and just use:

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

and how do I find out if the gaming kernel supports reiserfs??

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject:

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

I didn't know I was supposed to tell the kernel to support it. Just followed the installation instructions as they are written

deepthought · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 12:39 pm Post subject:

Use genkernel to build a kernel which will definitely work. Then, after having a running system, compile a custom kernel.

Regards,
Alexander
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 4:22 pm Post subject:

Visseroth · Apprentice Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 291 Location: Idaho

ok, well I did use gentoo's genkernel, but I will do it all over again and see if I can get it to work but I have two questions
1. is it better to download all the emerge sync or use what is on the cd??
2. can you setup Grub after the installation is complete and if so where can I find instructions on how to do so?

deepthought · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 8:27 am Post subject:

There are precise instructions howto setup GrUB in the Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions. Read this first and try. If you have questions and/or problems afterwards reading, feel free to ask.

Regards,
Alexander
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jackgray · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 13