Hi Kevin,
Kevin Bucknum wrote:
The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM.
To overcome
the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I
already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4
Not sure what's on the second cd - back when I installed
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:45, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Kevin,
Kevin Bucknum wrote:
The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM.
To overcome
the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I
already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4
At 01:45 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote:
/usr/portage/packages/
# echo $PKGDIR
empty return
You have to define $PKGDIR first. You do that by
export $PKGDIR=/path/to/your/package/dir
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Hi Collins,
- snip -
Problme now solved. I can mount another floppy created on another Linux
box with '/mnt/floppy' There is nothing wrong on the floppy nor its
drive, only impossible to read bootdisk.
I tried following command without success
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t ext3 /dev/fd0
Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Collins,
- snip -
I already have following line on /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
all can't work. However this line works on other distro
Then I made following change
/dev/fd0
From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after
installation.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Collins,
- snip -
Problme now solved. I can mount another floppy created on
another Linux
box with '/mnt/floppy' There is nothing wrong on the
floppy nor its
Hi Jon,
- snip -
Problme now solved. I can mount another floppy created on another
Linux box with '/mnt/floppy' There is nothing wrong on the floppy
nor its drive, only impossible to read bootdisk.
I tried following command without success
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t ext3 /dev/fd0
bytes]
OS starts.
Lot of thanks
B.R.
Stephen
Original message
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:54:51 +0800
From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after
installation.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Collins,
- snip -
Problme now solved. I
Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Jon,
- snip -
Problme now solved. I can mount another floppy created on another
Linux box with '/mnt/floppy' There is nothing wrong on the floppy
nor its drive, only impossible to read bootdisk.
I tried following command without success
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t
The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM.
To overcome
the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I
already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4
Not sure what's on the second cd - back when I installed there was just one.
It sounds like
Hi Barry
# mount -t ext2 (ext3 or dos) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or
too many mounted file systems
I also tried
# mount /mnt/floppy with no result
You must specify the correct fs type. For a Windows floppy: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
1) At time of installation
Installing additional hardware-specific ebuilds
# emerge emuk10k1
(Creative Sound Blaster Live!/Audigy support)
It took more 2 hours without completion. The screen was still
moving.
Finally I rebooted the PC by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del
2) At time of installation
Hi Collins,
- snip -
I already have following line on /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
all can't work. However this line works on other distro
Then I made following change
/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy
Hi Kevin
- snip -
All download times were very short and the installation time
was too long.
The screen continued moving 'writing file/fonts, deleting
file/fonts, etc.'
How fast is your machine - on my little PIII 733 xfree takes about 8 hours
to compile and kde takes about 15.
The PC used
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:37:18 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Collins,
- snip -
I already have following line on /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
all can't work. However this
Hi Barry,
Thanks for your advice.
Finally I got the problem fixed. Now Gentoo can be started. I can
mount CDRom but not Floppy.
# mount -t ext2 (ext3 or dos) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too
many mounted file systems
I also tried
#
On 17:57 Sun 12 Oct , Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Barry,
Thanks for your advice.
Finally I got the problem fixed. Now Gentoo can be started. I
can mount CDRom but not Floppy.
# mount -t ext2 (ext3 or dos) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
On Saturday 11 October 2003 22:54, Barry Marler wrote:
Sorry, been out all afternoon. All you need to do is boot with the
install CD, mount your boot partition, and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Your settings are generic;kernel-KV should be your kernel. If you
used gentoo-sources (recently),
Of course, it's all relative to your particular setup.
On 15:26 Sun 12 Oct , Eduardo Silva wrote:
On Saturday 11 October 2003 22:54, Barry Marler wrote:
Sorry, been out all afternoon. All you need to do is boot with the
install CD, mount your boot partition, and edit
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:46:32 -0400 Barry Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17:57 Sun 12 Oct , Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Barry,
Thanks for your advice.
Finally I got the problem fixed. Now Gentoo can be started. I
can mount CDRom but not Floppy.
If you code the following
Hi Collins,
Thanks for your advice.
If you code the following line in /etc/fstab, you will be able to issue the
command 'mount /dev/fd0', and the system will figure out the file type for you.
The noauto,user specification means that anyone (not just root) can
mount/umount this floppy, but it
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:48:18 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Collins,
Thanks for your advice.
If you code the following line in /etc/fstab, you will be able to issue the
command 'mount /dev/fd0', and the system will figure out the file type for
you. The noauto,user
Did you edit your grub.conf (fairly well documented in the installation
docs)? Looks like you used the dummy default version.
On 23:17 Sat 11 Oct , Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi all folks,
I just finished installation of Gentoo-Linux1.4 On booting the new
system it prompted
Hi Barry,
Thanks for your response
Did you edit your grub.conf (fairly well documented in the installation
docs)? Looks like you used the dummy default version.
Yes. I followed the installation instruction to edit
/boot/grub/grub.conf with 'nano' editor. Maybe I have done something
wrong
- -Original Message-
- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: 11 October 2003 18:49
-
snip
- system. Kindly advise how to start the system to re-edit
- /boot/grub/grub.conf other than to boot up the new system with CD1
/snip
hi
boot with the install CD,
chroot to your
hi
are you sure with hde (the letter E) ?
this whould be your fifth IDE-Drive, have you got a raid-adapter or something?
if you have a hde, can it be, that grub use hd0 for this drive?
I don't know exactly, but if you want to load a kernel with grub, you have to
give hin the right command:
Hi Barry,
Further to my previous posting
I followed Code listing 23.4 to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
*
Code listing 23.4: grub.conf for GRUB
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# If you're using genkernel, use something like this instead:
title=My
Hi Wayne,
Noted with thanks
B.R.
Stephen
Wayne Oliver wrote:
- -Original Message-
- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: 11 October 2003 18:49
-
snip
- system. Kindly advise how to start the system to re-edit
- /boot/grub/grub.conf other than to boot up the new
Hi Joe,
Thanks for your response
Joe Stone wrote:
Are you sure with hde (the letter E) ?
this whould be your fifth IDE-Drive, have you got a raid-adapter or something?
if you have a hde, can it be, that grub use hd0 for this drive?
Yes. The HD is connected to raid-adapter.
I don't know
Sorry, been out all afternoon. All you need to do is boot with the
install CD, mount your boot partition, and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Your settings are generic;kernel-KV should be your kernel. If you
used gentoo-sources (recently), it's kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7. Here's
mine:
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