[gentoo-user] CDRW Drive Mounting Issue

2003-12-03 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi guys, I am sorry for the last couple of emails, they may have been sent in html format. I finally realized how to change it over to plain text. Anyway here is my problem I finally finished the install for the third (3) time. I performed a stage 3+GRP. I now log in as 'root' and provide the p

RE: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount the CDRW drive

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
02, 2003 7:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount the CDRW drive Alexander A. Koulouris said: > Mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting > read-only Mount: No media found [...] > Please help me mount the cdrw so that I can install the rest

[gentoo-user] Cant Mount the CDRW drive

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi all,   Here is the latest,  I had to recreate the directory /mnt/cdrom with ‘mkdir –p /mnt/cdrom’ And I tried to mount the cdrom with ‘mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom’  I got a error Mount: you must specify the filesystem type So I entered ‘mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom –t iso9660’ And

FW: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi all, Well, I have completed the install and I reboot and login as root and enter the root password. When I try to mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it tells me mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist. I tride to mkdir /mnt/cdrom and still it wont allow me to do that. I don't know why? I a

RE: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
, 1 Dec 2003 15:17:34 -0500 "Alexander A. Koulouris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Having problem trying to emerge -k kde over the internet. The belnet > site, seems to halt the system and I can not complete the install. I > want to mount my cdrom so th

[gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

2003-12-01 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi all,   Having problem trying to emerge –k kde over the internet.  The belnet site, seems to halt the system and I can not complete the install.  I want to mount my cdrom so that I can install from the CD2 containing all the packages.  I have performed a gentoo install with stage3+grp (

[gentoo-user] dual booting with winxp

2003-11-30 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi all,   I know I will probably get a lot of grief for this, but I need to dual boot my PC.  I have installed winxp on its own HD, and Gentoo on another 120gb HD, I have the Gentoo Drive as Master , and the Win on as Slave.  My Grub/menu.lst looks like this     default 0 timeout 30

[gentoo-user] how do I get into the kde or gnome (GUI) enviorment

2003-11-30 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi all,   Finally I got it to work, I installed a STAGE3 as per the installation instructions step-by-step, now my installation boots up to the $prompt.  But I need to know how I get to the kde or gnome or the Graphical User Interface from here.   I know this is probably a silly questio

[gentoo-user] -bash: emerge: command not found

2003-11-30 Thread Alexander A. Koulouris
Hi guys,   I finally tried to install gentoo 1.4 on my P4 system and while following the installation step-by-step, I get on error on section 16. (Installing the kernel and system logger).  For some reson when I type # emerge –k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources I get the following error: -bash: