[tsunam]

Originally Posted by oldunion

emerge nano
nano /etc/make.conf
emerge development-sources

cd /usr/src..................>>cd/usr/src/linux came back with no such directory
ls
make menuconfig


What happened during this install?

oh and another thing, throughout the installation i kept getting message in red saying files were deprecated and needed to be updated, i just assumed i would do it after install and there didnt seem to be any errors....

Thanks to anyone!

Until about there you did great. There shouldn't be any development-sources. In your /usr/src do a ls -l, you should see something like
linux --> gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10. This is what is called a symlink, if it doesn't exist like that you need to do a ln -s gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 linux(not at a terminal but i think its in that order). You then should be able to cd to /usr/src/linux and do the make menuconfig. I'm not sure how after that you made a kernel if that didn't exist. Then you went back to doing good stuff again

code listing 20,21,22 i have no clue about...they were skipped <--not sure about which listings those are?

As far as the depreciated, you can ignore those for now. We can deal with those later. Did a lilo bootloader load up with 2 options and selecting windows boot windows?


Another thing you can do is when you boot up with 2004.3 do a fdisk /dev/hda and then hit p for print. Write that down and we can go through and just by size go this is linux its /dev/hdaX and windows is /dev/hdaX, for the bootloader, q is for quit.

I also commend you for your patience and determination in working to get gentoo installed.

[oldunion]

Thanks man, as long as im moving forward im still making progress no matter how slow it really is. I will get back to you on the first suggestion you have, it will definately be attempted later today.

Lilo did not come up at all, it went right to windows from powerup.

i know i will get this working today!

[oldunion]

lets see, this time i did everything the same less a few things im going to list:
emerge vixie-cron >>lots of error messages towards the bottom
error sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r8 failed
function src-compile line 54 exitcode
emake failed

I dont know how severe that^ is, it doesnt seem vital to me.

this time i did:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-r10
make menuconfig

to the best of my knowledge this went well.

i did fdisk to check out my partitions like you said:
/dev/hda1 linux
/dev/hda2 extended
/dev/hda3 fat32
/dev/hda5 linux swap

so fstab came up like this:
/dev/boot /boot ext2

i changed it to this:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3

/etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda..................i wasnt sure if i should change this to hda5, which is my swap partition
prompt
timeout=50
default=gentoo

image=/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/hda1

other=/dev/hda3.........(windows partition)
label=windows

out to root:
/sbin/lilo..............warning raid1 install implied by ommitted 'boot='
warning partition 1 on /dev/hda is not marked active
added gentoo*
added windows

exit
cd
umont /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
>>>>/mnt/gentoo/boot not mounted
reboot

i got to the "windows did not shutdown properly last time" screen, and then windows started up again. no lilo, no nothin.

can you see a mistake in what i did, i was sure i had it this time. it seems like its something with the bootloader and/or partition(s).

[tsunam]

after the make menuconfig and selecting stuff that you need/want, did you do a make && make modules_install?

ALso you might want to look into grub instead of lilo. I don't know lilo well as far as it goes.

[oldunion]

yes i did make && make modules_install. On gentoo, i was told my install was pretty badly flawed and that i should look into the handbook install from 2-6 and not just 7-11....makes sense i just thought i could get away with a quick install guide-guess not. another task for tomorrow.

[oldunion]

I almost got it, i can feel how close i am. I went back to zero and read the whole handbook like i shoulda done (guess being lazy doesnt pay) and i didnt have a single hitch in the entire install process, till i went to reboot. Im working over the grub issue, but i have a windows question for you since linux users would know it best.

I have not yet installed windows but i made the entry in grub to make sure that its there when i install windows. But everytime i try to install it from the windows cd it says that only 4 partitions are allowed on the disk. So i tried making an extended partition and then leaving a 5th partition empty, but windows still only sees 4. Furthermore, there isnt even anything on the 4th partition, its boot, swap, and root, 4 is empty.

[tsunam]

not sure, I always install windows first If i'm going to dual boot. Windows will naturally overwrite grub and you have to go through and install just grub again, a slight annoyance. I also know that windows is moody about its partition stuff.

[oldunion]

Originally Posted by tsunam

not sure, I always install windows first If i'm going to dual boot. Windows will naturally overwrite grub and you have to go through and install just grub again, a slight annoyance. I also know that windows is moody about its partition stuff.

Yup, i didnt read this before i did, but i remembered i read that windows likes to eat linux if installed second, so i let it go first and voila-it works. In fact i got the whole system up! Its still command line, but not bad for an install of 3 hours for a newb.

Grub loads, but oddly-you cant see it. If you did nothing, linux would boot up and come to localhost login, however, if you hit the down key as the computer boots up and then hit enter, windows loads . dont ask me how i discovered this either .

Im on to the rest of the handbook, but not tonight. Another task for tomorrow.

and thanks for all the help, i finally got it woohoo

[tsunam]

congrats . Now for the gui interface. Start it up(read:compiling) before school/work/bedtime and when you get back hopefully it'll be done


nice feeling of accomplishment isn't it?

[LinuxIsCool]

You can find a GENTOO 2005.1 Installation Script/Walk-Through here:

linux.coconia.net

[LinuxIsCool]

The link did not work -- http://linux.coconia.net

[oldunion]

Im having internet problems now. if i do ifconfig eth0, my ip and everything comes up fine.

I tried to emerge the first few packages from i think it was step 12 of the handbook, right after reboot. And i keep getting 'name resolution failed' messages

This is specifically to emerge the KDE packages, but i dont think anything else works. Im on a static ip, so i manually input my information in /etc/conf.d/net

i did nano -w /etc/resolv.conf
generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0
domain ntc-com.net
nameserver ##.###.#.##
nameserver ##.###.#.## (+1)

thinking back, i used the default domainname and hostnames given in the handbook. Im not certain what dhcpcd is but im assuming it has something to do with dynamic internet? which is something im not using, like a 56k.

i went into etc/conf.d/net and added this:
config_eth0=( "ip number netmask ip number" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw ip number")

it had been set for dhcpcd to automatically get the info.

[tsunam]

dhcpcd is a client that allows you get a ip address from a dhcp server..say that of a router. if you don't have a dhcpcd daemon emerged you won't get a address that is from your private network. If I remember we used dhcp to setup your network before, so you might need to boot up with the cd, mount chroot and emerge dhcpcd.