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Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:49 pm

I am new to gentoo and am trying to install it. But I got stuck at newroot during instalation. Is there a help manual (step by step) that I can see during instalation? IE on on the net but in gentoo

foton2 · Post by **foton2** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 4:09 pm

You can download docs from www.gentoo.org

But I think that gentoo without network isn't gentoo so switch to another console and

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lynx www.gentoo.org

Good luck and I think that docs on gentoo are the best thing you can find.

Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:00 pm

That didn't work...

This is how it says:

/bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off
newroot # lynx www.gentoo.org
/bin/ash: lynx: not found
newroot #

EdSchouten · Post by **EdSchouten** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:07 pm

links www.gentoo.org

Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:13 pm

Didn' work either... so didn't linx...

PaV · Post by **PaV** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:50 pm

emerge links then. youre probably already chrooted...

angelacb · Post by **angelacb** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 7:52 pm

Didn' work either... so didn't linx...

links should be available on the gentoo 2004.0 boot cd (full/minimal)
It might not be able to find links if you are in chroot, but i'm not sure which stage you're at during install.

Best Regards,

Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:05 pm

I have put in the cd and then this come up... I'M REALY NEWBIE ON THIS!

ketjow · Post by **ketjow** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:32 pm

when you type

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links www.gentoo.org

what error do you get? Something like "File not found" or perhaps "Host not found"? It might be your internet connection..

Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:47 pm

No. I get file don't found. And my Internet Connection is perfect.

/bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off

Many peopel having this problem. But I haven't found a fix for it.. I soppose I have the same problem as the other who have talked about is

ketjow · Post by **ketjow** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:57 pm

this ash-shell looks weird. What Live-CD do you use?
perhaps try

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/bin/bash

mattjgalloway · Post by **mattjgalloway** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:32 am

It's:

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links2 www.gentoo.org

links2 is the one that is included on the LiveCD

Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:50 am

First I have to excuase for my bad english....
This is what I am doing:
First I downloaded The Minimal Universal cd from a mirror. Then I burned it out on a CD-R. Then I change the boot in Bios and boot the disk... A lot of text come up and than this...

When I write in Links2 did it stand Links2 not found...

I realy wont to get this system to work...

Cellsus88 · Post by **Cellsus88** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:27 am

No response??

Anyway I have decided to download the other not minimal cd... If that don't work I give up... I think

faethon · Post by **faethon** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:54 am

maybe you can print the documents before starting the gentoo installation? Or maybe have another computer to read the step-by-step installation guide while installing?

Anyways, the 'links2' executable might not be in the path, and you have to manually find it. Probably it is somewhere in /usr/bin, or /bin. Also, links2 will of course not work if you have no internet connection...

Good luck!

PaV · Post by **PaV** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:34 pm

btw i hope youre not typing "Links2" but "links2"

discowombat · Post by **discowombat** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:01 pm

is install.txt still included on the livecd? When I built my gentoo 1.4, i just followed along by switching to another terminal and typing "less install.txt" or "less /install.txt" i don't remember where it was. It's a textfile that says basically the same thing as the online docs.

guard0 · Post by **guard0** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:07 pm

less /mnt/cdrom/docs/handbook/txt/install.txt
or open that file in nano...