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sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:14 pm

I have gone through all the steps and everything! Gone to networkless, have clicked recommended partition and when it says installing it only reaches file 50 which is something lang/perl/****/ What can I do?

ShinyThings · Post by **ShinyThings** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:15 am

Sounds like you are using one of the automated installers. They rarely work. Use the handbook.

If you need networkless, there is also a networkless installation handbook.

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 2:49 am

I have been reading the handbook at im really confused! How are we supposed to run modules and make accounts. Do you use 'terminal'? It is rally confusing! Can someone give me a quick tutorial!

Post by Hu » Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:44 am

Kernel modules are loaded by the kernel, then used as needed to provide services. You do not "run modules" in Linux. Many services use accounts. If you are referring to creation of accounts to permit a user to login, see the manual pages for useradd, usermod, and userdel.

The handbook is widely considered to be a good tutorial. If there is something in the handbook which you find unclear, please quote the relevant section, explain what you have tried, and ask for assistance with that particular item.

jburns · Post by **jburns** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:46 am

The problem with perl may be due to an invalid hostname. Check the output of

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hostname --fqdn

See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?for ... &id=205380

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:40 am

Ok. I know what to do now but when I come to partition my drive it says ''No free sectors available
What is happening?

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:06 am

Ok, I fixed the problem, now I am stuck at ''5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet'' from the handbook. Help please!

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:40 am

ok im really sorry for double posting but can soomeone help me with section Unpacking the Stage Tarball

It says

Unpacking the Stage Tarball

Now unpack your downloaded stage onto your system. We use tar to proceed as it is the easiest method:

Code Listing 2.5: Unpacking the stage

# tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2

Make sure that you use the same options (xvjpf). The x stands for Extract, the v for Verbose to see what happens during the extraction process (optional), the j for Decompress with bzip2, the p for Preserve permissions and the f to denote that we want to extract a file, not standard input.

Now that the stage is installed, continue with Installing Portage.

I don't get the Now unpack your downloaded stage onto your system. Can someone please tell me what to do!

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:45 am

The instructions are very explicit as to how to proceed. Which exact step do you not understand?

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:46 am

I don't understand the part where it says extract the files to your system! Where in my system though! The desktop, I dunno where!

twilight · Post by **twilight** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:51 pm

if you followed the handbook from the beginning, then you should be at command line,
not at somewhat "desktop-like". If you use the live-cd you can use a terminal
instead of the graphical installer.

You are unpacking the stage onto the partition, that is going to be your new
/ or say "root"-Filesystem. If you downloaded the stage-3*.tar.gz there,
then just navigate to where you downloaded it by using the command "cd".

Since u followed the handbook, this would be most likely

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cd /mnt/gentoo

followed by the extraction command the handbook gives you!

Cheers

NathanZachary · Post by **NathanZachary** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:50 pm

sophonmore wrote:I don't understand the part where it says extract the files to your system! Where in my system though! The desktop, I dunno where!

If you are using the minimal installation disc, you shouldn't have a desktop yet anyway. If you are using the LiveCD and trying to install via the terminal, think of the desktop as just being there, but serving no purpose in your installing. You won't worry about anything but the commands you're typing into the terminal window. You just need to make sure that you're in the directory /mnt/gentoo and then run the tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 command. It will unpack that tarball, and you'll proceed with the handbook.

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:10 pm

Ok thanks! I am starting over again and hope to see if i can do it right!

sophonmore · Post by **sophonmore** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:19 pm

Ok now im up to the part where you have to download the file. Where do I do download it to, because when it goes to the default spot nothing happens when I put the codes in terminal!

ShinyThings · Post by **ShinyThings** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:41 pm

sophonmore wrote:Ok now im up to the part where you have to download the file. Where do I do download it to, because when it goes to the default spot nothing happens when I put the codes in terminal!

So you are trying to download the stage3 tar.bz2 file? Download it to /mnt/gentoo and extract it there. An easy way to ensure that it is downloaded to the correct spot is to start links or wget from the directory /mnt/gentoo.

EDIT: Make sure that your gentoo root partition is mounted to /mnt/gentoo

NathanZachary · Post by **NathanZachary** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:46 pm

You want to make sure that you did:

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cd /mnt/gentoo

before firing up links. Also, just to be sure, you can even do the command

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pwd

which stands for "print working directory" to make sure that you're in /mnt/gentoo. Once you make sure of that, execute the links command:

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links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml

download the stage tarball, and extract it using the command:

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tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2