[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] New Install + Celeron + linux-2.6.10 + Reboot Hang + LVM

2005-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:53, Dirk Raeder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm doing a fresh install of gentoo based on the 2004.2 livecd which uses the 2.6.7 kernel. Everything installs fine, I even went ahead to compile the other stuffs

[gentoo-user] New Install + Celeron + linux-2.6.10 + Reboot Hang + LVM

2005-01-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm doing a fresh install of gentoo based on the 2004.2 livecd which uses the 2.6.7 kernel. Everything installs fine, I even went ahead to compile the other stuffs before re-booting with 2.6.10 kernel. During the reboot, the monitor/boot-up messages hangs (at the arrow) vesafb: hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install + Celeron + linux-2.6.10 + Reboot Hang + LVM

2005-01-16 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm doing a fresh install of gentoo based on the 2004.2 livecd which uses the 2.6.7 kernel. Everything installs fine, I even went ahead to compile the other stuffs before re-booting with 2.6.10 kernel. During the reboot,

[gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Stephen More
I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download db-4.1.25.tar.gz. Aborting. Couldn't download

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Peng
On 01/15/05 14:39, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Ivan Yosifov
Why does it fail ( connection error ? , not found on server ? ) ? Are you using the portage snapshot from the LiveCD , or have you downloaded the current tree with emerge --sync ? Which LiveCD are you using ( 2004.3 ? ) ? Are you using some sort of local mirror for downloading sources ? On Sat,

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Peng
On 01/15/05 14:39, Stephen More wrote: I have heard some good things about gentoo so I am giving it a try. I started off with a stage 1 install and have made it to stage2. I have been trying to get the following to work: emerge --fetchonly system It complains about: Couldn't download

[gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). So I installed everything last night, but have run into two problems with the new install. The first problem (or issue) is when I boot the system, I do not see the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Peng
On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Peng wrote: On 01/15/05 15:55, Nicholas Pappas wrote: I just got done installing Gentoo on my main box after looking at a different distro (which couldn't pick up my SATA drive). Just curious... What distro was it? Ubuntu. Heard some good things about it, so I thought I would give it a

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Stephen More
Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
I know this happened to me before. though not an instillation problem It happens to me a lot trying to emerge cups, its been forever ago but i think it happened to me when i first installed the OS with cups. with cups a lot of the time it is indeed on the mirror though not in the distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
It is not just the OKs that are missing -- it is the entire line that would normally display the OKs. I'm using the same monitor (it is LCD) as I was using in my past install, but always received those lines in the past. When booting, I see that weird warning towards the end. Here are the

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread neil
Stephen More wrote: I did execute mirrorselect and this is what it picked: GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp6.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://chod.cwru.edu/ gentoo ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/; Manually downloading will fix this

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Ivan Yosifov
It seems mirrorselect has chosen br0ken mirros. Try removing GENTOO_MIRRORS from /etc/make.conf and running the emerge again. Using the default mirror should be slower , yet correct. If it is too slow for you , you may look at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml and set a mirror manually.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2005-01-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Stephen More wrote: Resolving ftp6.uni-erlangen.de... failed: Host not found. Resolving vlaai.snt.ipv6.utwente.nl... failed: Host not found. Resolving chod.cwru.edu... 129.22.21.15 Connecting to chod.cwru.edu[129.22.21.15]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting.

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Jadex
That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to Seems to me that somethings wrong with your inittab... -- live free() or die() Jadex signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje =?ISO-8859-1?Q?est=E1?= firmada digitalmente

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Nicholas Pappas
Jadex wrote: That Warning: unable to open initial console seems awfully fishy to Seems to me that somethings wrong with your inittab... Okay -- someplace to start looking. I'm in the middle of an '--update world' on the box in question, so I will have to wait to look at it. Is there anything

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Trouble w/ Boot and GCC Update

2005-01-15 Thread Douglas James Dunn
About the OK's are they just not there? like missing? if your using an lcd monitor I've noticed that sometimes when my monitor and previous monitors switch between like your boot screen and X and other stuff sometimes it displays the screen shifted to the left or to your case possibly the right.

[gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Rob Barnett
I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Jose González Gómez
Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Rob Barnett
: [gentoo-user] New Install Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Ric Messier
into place for you. Ric - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Claudinei Matos
, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:41:46 -0500 (EST) Ric Messier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Rob Barnett wrote: I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? bzImage is in /usr/src/linux/boot/arch/arch or

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread brettholcomb
: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread brettholcomb
Sorry, that is /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot as others have pointed out. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 08:37:57 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Check /usr/src/linux/arch/boot for bzImage. If /boot wasn't mounted when you generated

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2004-02-12 Thread Jose González Gómez
with the orignal setting to get a kernel that matched the original, but to no success. Gracias, Rob - Original Message - From: Jose González Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Rob, Manual

[gentoo-user] new install - Dell Inspiron 8500

2004-02-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
I'm installing on a Dell Inspiron w/ RH9 XP already installed. I created a partition (/dev/hda6) and I'm loading everything on their. I emerged grub, and it seems to work fine for RH9 XP, but when I boot Gentoo I get to STAGE 4 and it complains that the: Step 4: Determining root device

Re: [gentoo-user] new install - Dell Inspiron 8500

2004-02-08 Thread Mike
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Kurt Guenther wrote: I'm installing on a Dell Inspiron w/ RH9 XP already installed. I created a partition (/dev/hda6) and I'm loading everything on their. I emerged grub, and it seems to work fine for RH9 XP, but when I boot Gentoo I get to

Re: [gentoo-user] new install - Dell Inspiron 8500

2004-02-08 Thread Kurt Guenther
Mike wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Kurt Guenther wrote: What is in your /etc/fstab? Nothing reasonable. I have it booting now. --Kurt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...

2004-02-01 Thread Yorian
I have about the same, I also installed Gentoo, and when I reboot it, it says Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 01:00 I don't think 01:00 is a timestamp, as someone said before, it doesn't match, and it never changes. I would also like to know what this means and what you can do

RE: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...

2004-02-01 Thread Steve Boone
with reiserfs file systems... Steve -Original Message- From: Yorian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 2:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors... I have about the same, I also installed Gentoo, and when I reboot it, it says

[gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...

2004-01-31 Thread Krikket
Okay, I've got another error that has me stumped, and I'm hoping to find some guidance here as to where I should be looking to fix this bugger. I've gone through the initial build process, starting with mke2fs and a stage 1 build. Everything seems to go pretty much flawlessly until I get to

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...

2004-01-31 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 10:43, Krikket wrote: ext2-fs: ide0(3,65) couldn't mount because of unsupported features (4). kernel panic: ufs: unable to mount root fs on 03:41 seems to me that your kernel lacks builtin (i.e. not as a module) support for your root filesystem. Please check your

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install, interesting errors...

2004-01-31 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I believe teh 3:41 is the device designation. When I've seen that on my SCSI it's something like 8:3. It thinks the kernel is on device 3:41. Was /boot mounted when you built the kernel and did you build the drivers for the boot device into the kernel? Everything seems to go pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] new install with 2.6 and NPTL

2004-01-18 Thread Jani-Matti Hätinen
On Sunday 18 January 2004 00:53, Simon Prosser wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:07, Aaron Walker wrote: So to install with NPTL, do I just set the nptl use flag and bootstrap? more or less yes, you have to do /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap26.sh so it install and compiles everything

[gentoo-user] new install with 2.6 and NPTL

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
A friend just gave me an old computer (Celeron 533), which I was going to replace my P233 Gentoo mail server with. I want to install gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 (what I am currently running on the P233), but use NPTL (I have not done this on P233). I remember reading on this list a week or so

[gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem

2004-01-16 Thread Krikket
So I finally reached the point of the install where the directions say it's time to reboot, which makes me happy. So I reboot, and find out that I managed to mungle the GRUB loader. Instead of root (hd0,0), I manage to put down root (0,0). Ooops. For some reason, editing the command doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem

2004-01-16 Thread Brendan Sullivan
mount /boot edit with your favorite editor /boot/grub/grub.conf that should solve all your problems Brendan On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:04, Krikket wrote: So I finally reached the point of the install where the directions say it's time to reboot, which makes me happy. So I reboot, and find

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install: GRUB problem

2004-01-16 Thread David Gethings
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:04, Krikket wrote: Err, any thoughts on what I did wrong, and how I can fix it? (For hopefully obvious reasons, I'd like to avoid doing the install from square one...) Assuming you installed from a CD here is how you can change your grub.conf file: boot from CD mount

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-26 Thread s970501
On Thursday 25 December 2003 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file

[gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-25 Thread Wayne Oliver
Hi all Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it. I am busy with bootstrap process, on a new install, at the moment. What I would like to know is if I choose to use kernel 2.6.0 is anything different/new that I need to be aware of ??? Regards Wayne -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-25 Thread s970501
Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file system support in pseudo file system section. and 2.6 is workin'

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-25 Thread Collins
On Thursday 25 December 2003 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use 2.6 in gentoo, you should enable some of old file

RE: [gentoo-user] New Install with kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-25 Thread Wayne Oliver
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 December 2003 04:49 AM Merry Christmas... and congratulation for coming to kernel 2.6.0 world... things to be aware of in 2.6 is... ALSA is built-in feature of kernel itself and if you want to use

[gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread Fiifi Markin
hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx

Re: [gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread Bram De Smet
if your in a console, using links or lynx, see that your proxy is set export http_proxy=proxy.myisp.com do the same in mozilla etc On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:39, Fiifi Markin wrote: hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i

RE: [gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread Ian Neubert
: [gentoo-user] new install hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web page, it does not seen to have any browser. does it have a broswer so i can download the GUI, and X thx

Re: [gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread Fiifi Markin
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new install Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:23 -0400 On 31 Jul 2003 at 17:39, Fiifi Markin wrote: hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping stuff, but i cant seem to download or browse any site or web

Re: [gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread donnie berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 31 July 2003 13:53, Fiifi Markin wrote: From: R'twick Niceorgaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip On 31 Jul 2003 at 17:39, Fiifi Markin wrote: hello, i just insatlled gentoo, and i want to browse the net; i know i'm online ,cos i can ping

Re: [gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:53:53 + Fiifi Markin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present I am not sure where you are in the process, but if you can ping IPs but not URLs, then look to your /etc/resolv.conf file and make sure that it contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] new install

2003-07-31 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:53, Fiifi Markin wrote: i already tried lynx and links, they r both not present Have you tried emergeing them? emerge lynx Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new install: twm OK, but KDE not working

2003-07-18 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, problem is solved - thx for helpink! :-) Karl-Heinz On Friday 18 July 2003 01:08, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: running startx works: twm shows up but running kdm only shows a gray window: normally this is the case if the laptop is run in an

[gentoo-user] new install: twm OK, but KDE not working

2003-07-17 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, this is my 1st mail to this list - if I ask an FAQ please tell me where I can read the answer ad forgive me! ;-) After installing Gentoo from scratch on a new HD in my Acer Travelmate 260 laptop I have the following problem: running startx

[gentoo-user] New Install

2003-07-06 Thread bryce
Hey all, i just purchased a new hard drive( one of those bad boys with 8MB of cache) and i should be getting it later in the week. I'm going to do a fresh install of gentoo, and i want to know if there is anyway to keep my current config, so that all i have to do is copy the file to the new