Emerge and other commands do not work

greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Hello.

I'm a noob to Gentoo, but have successfully built Mandrake/Ubuntu/RedHat builds.
This is my first Sparc build.

I have a Sun Sparc Ultra 60 with single processor 2gigs ram and 2x9gb HD.

My problem is that after installization I must first login in console, and not gnome.
If I try to emerge ANYTHING, it says "emerge: command not found"

When I try other commands like 'man' or 'locate', I get the same "command not found"

I just reinstalled portage from the .bz2 file, with same results.

Ideas? This seems to be more than just a Portage issue.

Greazy

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

try stuff like:

/usr/bin/emerge
/bin/ls /
echo $PATH
ls /
env-update
source /etc/profile
echo $PATH
ls /
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greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

so what exactly does ls / show? only portage?
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jonathanross · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:33 am Post subject:

It sounds as if you haven't chrooted into the new environment properly during the install or when it boots up.

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Again, NOOB alert.

I installed using Stage 3.

When I get back to my rig I'll check my fstab

thanks.

Dlareh · Advocate Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

during the install I was able to emerge things....such as some logging programs. I know because I see a [!] at the startup screen

Yes, I think I'll redo parts of the install. Still gotta check my fstab.

jonathanross · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject:

That's good.

Maybe you untarred the stage tar into a directory other than the root initially.

J

greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

At this stage where should I go? should I jump back to the point of extracting the stage 3 tar?

I just tried extracting the stage3 tar at root and I see a ton of "Cannot open: No such file or directory"
I'm guessing I need to first boot cdrom mount /mnt/gentoo and throw it over that way. no? I am logged in as root at this time, so I thought it would've worked.

my /etc/fstab file seems to look right. The computer does boot just fine, and silo is configured and working.

greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

ah, I think the problem is diskspace. I just tried creating a folder in /var and it said I was out.

I've got 2x 9gb disks. Shouldn't that be enough? Whats a good layout for 18 gigs to run gnome w/ apache, php, etc and a decent home directory?

Toady · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:13 am Post subject:

greazy · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Thanks.

My current setup is a bit raw, but it works:

sda1 = / all else
sda2 = swap 512M
sdb1 = /home 9gigs

I was having probs with memory space, so I wanted to try something very basic then change it later if need be with or w/o a whole new install.

Toady · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:11 am Post subject:

I would have said the best part of 9gb for the / would be plenty....
a base system is only 1.6gb at most - so if its out of space what goes on ?

what does a df -h tell you ? - also what filesystem are you using and did you give it any weird swiched while formatting ?
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