pls. help on installation doubts

jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

I rebuilt the kernel the way u told and the errors went off very clear....
This gave me an idea on the type of errors I can do in Linux being a windows /dos user...
Now, I will be trying to setup Xfree86 etc. with gnome. I wonder whether installation manual at gentoo.org will suffice my need.
Before that, I am trying to solve another warning I am receiving while I am booting:

"Caching Service dependencies....
It is not a good idea to have more than one service provide the same virutal service (logger) !"

It seems by mistake I emerged 2 system loggers after kernel compilation. Can I remove the 1 I don't like?
Also I need to check whether cron package is working or whether they are also duplicated like this...

Its a whole lot of mistakes; still I want to push along with this...
thanx
Jeeson.

a wrote:

I recommend splitting this into several commands:
make dep
# make clean
# make bzImage
# make modules
# make modules_install
# mount /boot
# mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.orig
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot

de4d · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2002 1:03 pm Post subject:

theoretically the i686-pentium3 tarball should work, b/c celeron is p3 core with less L1 cache.
your harddisk/ram size/whatever system layout dont play any role when choosing an optimized release
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goosnargh · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 32

jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

Thanx friends for ur fast support.

But it seems I am in another problem: I downloaded stage3-i686 tar file and append it into my gentoo live bootable cdrom such that stage3 will be available after booting from cd-rom. Now that cdrom is not working!!! I tried with another CD since i don;t want to download again thru gentoo but new cd also is not running. It shows some error while booting.

I don;t know what to do know with this...

theotherphil · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 7

Boot up the original ISO and follow the instructions up to and including mounting the partitions (position 7). Now replace position 8 with:

cd /mnt/gentoo

wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/x86/stage3-i686_pentium3-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2

which will download the stage3 tarball to /mnt/gentoo. Now carry on from position 9 in the instructions.

goosnargh · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 32

fghellar

rac · Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 11:06 pm Post subject:

I agree with fghellar. This topic was extensively debated in Stage 3 install procedure?.
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goosnargh · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 32

I ran into problems with untarring only stage 3 about the time 1.3a was released which was solved by untarring all packs, in order. I then assumed the error was in installation documents rather than the stage 3 tarball. Thanks for correcting me, if I ever do a stage 3 install, that should save me some time.

jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

1st, thanx for helping me in installation...

I installed gentoo 1.41 from livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso (I needed to download the portage tree even after having stage3 tar file with me).

NOW, I have booted in to gentoo with some problem. While making doing 'menu config' i disabled 'dev file system' by mistake. So, It gave me an error 'Your kernel has been complied without DEVFS support. u will have to compile it to kernel for gentoo to work properly.'
So, I compiled the kernel from 'menu config' again but the error is't going.

Further, while booting it shows "modprobe: can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/modules.dep' Such file or directory can't be found.

can some1 please give me hint over these problems? I also want to verify whether the partitions are mounted correctly while booting or whether my booting process is correct... Is there any way for all this...

I never thought it would be this much painful...

thanx...
Jeeson.

[quote="jeeson"]I am a very new linux user and have downloaded livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso from ftp and burned a bootable CD out of it.

I want to know which stage3 tar file must i need to download for my hardware setup given below:
Celeron 700Mhz, HDD 20GB with WIN-ME preinstalled (no floppy drive), 64MB Ram, CD-ROM, Intel810 motherboard with inbuilt sound, etc.

jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

thanx friends, for ur fast support. I recompiled kernel to avoid much of the problems. Now it seems, I have installed gentoo almost 70%. It is booting fine, but with this problem:

'modprobe: Can't open dependancies file /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9/modules.dep No such file or directory'.
This is shown while booting is started, i.e., before login prompt shown. I am afraid I can't go forth to next step without correcting this1 too.

Will the 10s of 1000s of source files be compiled when 'make install' is done? I don't feel so; all souce files are lying here n there in my hdd.
I also want to know whether my system is installed properly. is there any utility to check this.
Also please tell me whether I can use both KDE and Gnome packages in my system.

thanx.

rac · Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 6:02 pm Post subject:

Did you remember to run "make modules" and "make modules_install"? Does the directory /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9 directory exist? Does running "update-modules force" work? Are you sure you mounted /boot before copying bzImage to it?
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jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

The /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r9 directory dosen't exist. Infact while booting linux is 'checking for module dependancies' and then the error is shown.

The commands u have mentioned here are not there in the installation instructions on website. I haven't seen and used these commands.
I am booting in to linux through gurb interface only. When I used the mv command (as in code listing 28 of installation instructions at website) the bzimage didn't get moved. But the cp command worked. So I even copied bzImage to /boot/bzImage.orig and grub refers to that file only for booting.
Further, I once recompiled linux to avoid devfs error for I didn't enable it 1st time: the error got eliminated; this make me feel I am booting right.

I would like to know whether at this stage I can continue installation procedures for X, Gnome, etc. can will cause some problem because of the above lib error?

thanx for helping me.

rac · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 5:28 pm Post subject:

jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

I rebuilt the kernel the way u told and the errors went off very clear....
This gave me an idea on the type of errors I can do in Linux being a windows /dos user...
Now, I will be trying to setup Xfree86 etc. with gnome. I wonder whether installation manual at gentoo.org will suffice my need.
Before that, I am trying to solve another warning I am receiving while I am booting:

"Caching Service dependencies....
It is not a good idea to have more than one service provide the same virutal service (logger) !"

It seems by mistake I emerged 2 system loggers after kernel compilation. Can I remove the 1 I don't like?
Also I need to check whether cron package is working or whether they are also duplicated like this...

Its a whole lot of mistakes; still I want to push along with this...
thanx
Jeeson.

I recommend splitting this into several commands:
make dep
# make clean
# make bzImage
# make modules
# make modules_install
# mount /boot
# mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.orig
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot[/quote]
Can you try it that way, making sure that if any of the make commands fail with errors that you stop at that step and fix the error, getting help if you need it?[/quote]

jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

I rebuilt the kernel the way u told and the errors went off very clear....
This gave me an idea on the type of errors I can do in Linux being a windows /dos user...
Now, I will be trying to setup Xfree86 etc. with gnome. I wonder whether installation manual at gentoo.org will suffice my need.
Before that, I am trying to solve another warning I am receiving while I am booting:

"Caching Service dependencies....
It is not a good idea to have more than one service provide the same virutal service (logger) !"

It seems by mistake I emerged 2 system loggers after kernel compilation. Can I remove the 1 I don't like?
Also I need to check whether cron package is working or whether they are also duplicated like this...

Its a whole lot of mistakes; still I want to push along with this...
thanx
Jeeson.

rac · Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 5:52 pm Post subject:

A search for "virtual and logger" found more then one virtual service logger?. Please follow up to that thread on this issue.
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jeeson · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 8

I have checked this section and removed the duplicated data.

Further, I have downloaded all gnome packages for Gentoo...!!!
and emerged it using emerge gnome
How can I recompile all of these packages which emerge have done for me automatically after downloading?
I am in the process of configuring XFree86 and getting some errors.
Seems need to work for long....

thanx all for your help, especially rac.

Jeeson