Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jason, Thanks for your advice. Still encountered difficulty to proceed. On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 11:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: - snip - * Running make oldconfig... [ ok ] * Logging to /var/log/genkernel.log... [ ok ] * Starting 2.4.20-gaming-r3 build... [ ok ] * Running

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 20 September 2003 16:54, Stephen Liu wrote: As super ROOT I must proceed as follows otherwise 'genkernel' could not work # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash # env-update Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... # source /etc/profile # genkernel . * Running make oldconfig...

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jason, - snip - In the chroot shell, run # cd /usr/src/linux # make modules It should run fairly quickly and end in an error. If you could post that error, we may be able to help. I did as follows; # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash # cd /usr/src/linux # make modules . ..

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jason, Marius and others Thanks for your advice. I made another round and still met with problem as follows; 1) unpack the portage snapshot 2) upto step 15 - without complaint 3) # emerge -k genkernel . -- !empty dir /usr/share/doc/genkernel-1.5 -- !empty dir /usr/share/doc --

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Jason, Marius and others Thanks for your advice. I made another round and still met with problem as follows; 1) unpack the portage snapshot 2) upto step 15 - without complaint 3) # emerge -k genkernel . -- !empty dir /usr/share/doc/genkernel-1.5 -- !empty dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your advice. I took another round with following result; After # emerge -K genkernel # emerge gentoo-sources # genkernel . * Running make oldconfig... [ ok ] * Logging to /var/log/genkernel.log... [ ok ] * Starting 2.4.20-gaming-r3 build... [ ok

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 20 September 2003 12:11, Stephen Liu wrote: After # emerge -K genkernel # emerge gentoo-sources # genkernel . * Running make oldconfig... [ ok ] * Logging to /var/log/genkernel.log... [ ok ] * Starting 2.4.20-gaming-r3 build... [ ok ] * Running make

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: It hanged here for more than 45 minutes compelling me to switch off the PC. From 'Running make dep' to 'Running make bzImage' and then to 'Running make modules' it was very slow. Each took at least 30 minutes or even more. Depending

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread gabriel
On September 19, 2003 11:56 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: Jason's correct. This could be normal. AltCtrlF2 to a second console, log in, and then use 'top' or something to see what the machine is doing. you do mean alt-f2 right? -- the hottest

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 20 September 2003 13:39, gabriel wrote: On September 19, 2003 11:56 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: Jason's correct. This could be normal. AltCtrlF2 to a second console, log in, and then use 'top' or something to see what the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-19 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:39:29 -0400 gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On September 19, 2003 11:56 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:44, Jason Stubbs wrote: Jason's correct. This could be normal. AltCtrlF2 to a second console, log in, and then use 'top' or something to see

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, I am installing Gentoo 1.4 (Gentoo-030908), 2CDs version following Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Tarball extracted: stage3 Coming to 16. Installing the kernel and system logger Kernel selections cdimage /# emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources !!! No profile directory;

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Svein Harald Soleim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 September 2003 14:21, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, I am installing Gentoo 1.4 (Gentoo-030908), 2CDs version following Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Tarball extracted: stage3 Coming to 16. Installing the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 14 September 2003 21:21, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, I am installing Gentoo 1.4 (Gentoo-030908), 2CDs version following Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Tarball extracted: stage3 Coming to 16. Installing the kernel and system logger Kernel selections cdimage /#

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 14 September 2003 21:21, Stephen Liu wrote: cdimage /# emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources !!! No profile directory; syetem mode unavailiable snip cdimage /# genkernel gentoo-sources bash: genkernel: command not found Also, you need to run: # emerge -k genkernel before you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Marius Mauch
On 09/14/03 Svein Harald Soleim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 September 2003 14:21, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, I am installing Gentoo 1.4 (Gentoo-030908), 2CDs version following Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions Tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jason, Thanks for your advise. Before taking another round I expect to clarify following point; On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: - snip - cdimage /# emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources !!! No profile directory; syetem mode unavailiable This sounds like you either

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 - 1st time installation problem

2003-09-14 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 15 September 2003 00:43, Stephen Liu wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: cdimage /# emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources !!! No profile directory; syetem mode unavailiable This sounds like you either missed the following from Step 8: # tar -xvjf