some problems with the installation

Nazgul

hello,
I hope that somebody can help me.

First and for all my system setup
hda: 40GB NTFS for WindowsXP
hdb1: 1.5GB SWAP
hdb2 and hdb3: FAT32 partitions
hdb6: 250MB boot partition for Gentoo
hdb7: 4GB for gentoo
hdb8: 4GB for Mandrake 9.0
Internet by cabel (Telenet Belgium)
Gentoo Livecd with UT (the basic version didn't boot)

And now my problems:
1. I'm unable to mount hdb6 to /mnt/gentoo/boot

the respons is: Mount: wrong FS, bad block on /dev/hdb6 or to many mounted systems

I have no problems with mounting /dev/hdb7 en my cdrom at /dev/hdd
hdb6 and 7 are both formated with 'mke2fs'

2. when I unpacked the stage3 tarball (burned at a CD-RW several times and several times downloaded again) the output says with numberous files: files couldn't not be extracted directory doesn't exist

3. If I use emerge I can't esablish a connection but if I look in ifconfig everything seems OK, I have also tried to use the proxy's but with no result

The strangest is that the problems are't always there
At the start I had no problem with mounting hdb6

Ihave tried to use the 'boot linux' suggested but that gave problems with internet
Installing from Mandrake didn't work either

hopefully somebody can help me

Binestar · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 58

I had the same problem mounting the drives. What I did to fix it was to force a specific type of filesystem. I.E.

mount -t e2fs /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/boot

The second problem: Are you in the correct directory when you are untarring the file? what command are you using?

The third problem: You can download the portage system with wget and manually extract it. Look for the post I started in this forum for the place to download that from.

Hope that helps,

Binestar

Nazgul · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:58 pm Post subject:

I am in the correct directory and the command I use is: tar -xvjpf stage3-i686_pentium4-1.4_rc1.tar.bz2

another question: is it possible to set the layout of the beyboard to 'belgium'?

And I will try the suggestions right away

Nazgul · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 5:24 pm Post subject:

oké when I give the following command's:
mke2fs /dev/hdb6
mount -t e2fs /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/boot
I get the response: Mount:fs type e2fs not suported by kernel

securiteaze · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 6:15 pm Post subject:

Try this

Binestar · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 58

Yeah, the proper mount command is ext2 no e2fs. i was typing faster than I was thinking there. Sorry about that.

Binestar

Nazgul · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 6:39 pm Post subject:

no problem it worked with mount -t ext2

One problem down

Are there people who have experience with telenet?
which proxy to use, what settings?

mooman · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 11:22 pm Post subject:

Maybe an answer for the original Question #2?

The "boot from floppy" howto (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690) contained these instructions which I followed for one of my machines:

Nazgul · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 4:06 pm Post subject:

thaks for all the help

with the advice of mooman yhe last problem as solved and Now I have finished the installation

Nazgul · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 8:03 am Post subject:

and direct a new problem

when I try to boot Gentoo all goes wel till it reaches NET4
I get the messages:
NET 4:Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux Net 4.0
and then a blank space and a blinking underscore

And it just stops

Can I resolve this by adjusting a file?
or do I have to reinstall?

Nazgul · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:30 pm Post subject:

and a kick

a reinstall didn't work

woboz · n00b Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 65

Do you have a multi-processor machine if not you need to remove smp from the kernel.

Nazgul · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:55 pm Post subject: