Gentoo!

Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
I'm right at the end of the workbook now, and it's time to install packages from the CD. The workbook says to place the packages CD in the tray and then mount it, but the CD-ROM won't release the tray. I tried rebooting, then booted from the CD as that was my only option, and I'm now back in there but it still won't release the tray for me to put packages in. :confused:

Also, what should I do after that to get into Gnome instead of this setup screen?

Ta much. :)
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as burns says you have to use umount to unmount the cd first.

thats no setup screen if you are where i think, thats linux!

you have to emerge gnome if you want to use it. dont for get to change your use flags to: gnome gtk -kde -qt

then emerge gnome (you might want to use the binaries because compiling gnome could take hours).

let us know when youve dont that then we'll teach you how to add stuff to the default runlevel and how to configure X to load gdm instead of xdm.

one step at a time though! and im getting real confused between everyone now!
 
Thanks all. :)

Well I just typed
Code: 
umount /mnt/cdrom
and it said the device is busy. Did I get it right, and if so what can I do?

If I got it wrong, please don't point and laugh. You have to bear in mind I don't even know Basic or any other type of language or code, so coming up with commands is a case of making a guess based on what I've been doing so far. :p


/As the stuff on the CD will probably be out of date, I won't bother then, but it would be nice to know if I got the command right or wrong.

//I'll go and emerge Gnome, that should keep me busy for a moment or two.
 
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Originally posted by riven
thats no setup screen if you are where i think, thats linux!
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Bloody hell, it's not very user-friendly for the muppet like me is it! :D

Originally posted by burns
24 hours after I started and it's just finished emerge system:(.
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Yikes! Mine took about thirty minutes I think. Are you installing on an old machine? Mine isn't old, but it's nothing special either: Duron 1600, 512MB RAM, oldish SFF motherboard. Oh, or is it because you compiled some or all of yours? Would that take longer than my stage 3?
 
Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
Bloody hell, it's not very user-friendly for the muppet like me is it! :D



Yikes! Mine took about thirty minutes I think. Are you installing on an old machine? Mine isn't old, but it's nothing special either: Duron 1600, 512MB RAM, oldish SFF motherboard. Oh, or is it because you compiled some or all of yours? Would that take longer than my stage 3?
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haha he did a stage one on a 456 or something, which will take an absolute age! Stage 1 takes quite a while on fast machines

using a shell is lovely. i dont use a file browser, i just use shells. i dont use xdm either, i boot straight into a shell. that way if X borks whilest ******* around with ati then i can mess around before starting X
 
Bah. I was doing reasonably well following the workbook, but now I'm falling apart at the seams. I just typed in emerge gnome, and it said -bash: emerge: command not found, so I take it there's more to it than just emerge gnome. :p
 
Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
Bah. I was doing reasonably well following the workbook, but now I'm falling apart at the seams. I just typed in emerge gnome, and it said -bash: emerge: command not found, so I take it there's more to it than just emerge gnome. :p
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haha, you need to be root

type:

su

then type in your root password (note no ** or anything will apear)

then hit enter

you should then have a # instead of a $

now it will work
 
Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
Thanks all. :)

Well I just typed
Code: 
umount /mnt/cdrom
and it said the device is busy. Did I get it right, and if so what can I do?

If I got it wrong, please don't point and laugh. You have to bear in mind I don't even know Basic or any other type of language or code, so coming up with commands is a case of making a guess based on what I've been doing so far. :p


/As the stuff on the CD will probably be out of date, I won't bother then, but it would be nice to know if I got the command right or wrong.

//I'll go and emerge Gnome, that should keep me busy for a moment or two.
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You've done it correctly, it's just that the cdrom is being used (proberbly from the first phase of the install when you boot into a cd based linux environment). The only way you can eject a cd when it's busy is if you the kernel was compiled with "supermount" (the kernel on the CD in this case). Forget the CD and just emerge it normally.
 
I was just about to follow Riven's advice, when I noticed that I already have a # and am logged in as root. It still doesn't like emerge gnome though.

I finished the workbook fully except for the packages CD bit, so rebooting couldn't have done any harm could it?
 
Originally posted by riven
oh, i thought you had rebooted already!
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I had done. After it rebooted, I automatically had a # and was logged on as root. Sorry if I've not been clear. :)

Yeah, I had emerged some things before the reboot. Genkernel and some programs for the ReiserFS filesystem come to mind, but there were a few other things.


/Time for me to pack up and go home. I just went back through the workbook to see if anything might be responsible for this, if perhaps I hadn't created my user other than root properly, and I just discovered that I completely missed everything on page ten, the penultimate one. I went from the end of page nine to doing the user stuff on page eleven, and then I rebooted. :o

I'll sort out page ten, and with luck I should be able to emerge Gnome then and be mostly sorted.
 
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Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
Genkernel
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cringes.

hmmm, so i assume you took the live cd out when you rebooted? and grub came up ok?

i assume it doesnt boot into root though, you logged in there?
 
Originally posted by riven
cringes.

hmmm, so i assume you took the live cd out when you rebooted? and grub came up ok?

i assume it doesnt boot into root though, you logged in there?
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Sorry, just edited my last post with info. relevant to this, after you'd posted. I missed out a page of my workbook, which included setting up the bootloader. :o
 
The first thing on this missing page is to emerge grub, but that doesn't work either. :(

I think it would have done before the reboot though because it was the next thing on the list, so presumably my early reboot has caused some complication or other?

Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
I'm suprised it even booted :p It really shouldn't have :)
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Booted from the liveCD, as that was still in the tray. :)
 
Originally posted by Deadly Ferret
Sorry, just edited my last post with info. relevant to this, after you'd posted. I missed out a page of my workbook, which included setting up the bootloader. :o
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oh dear, chroot back in and set it up. theres a bit a page or 2 ago about chrooting if that wasnt for you?

the manual i use has bootloaders on page 19!!! much more comprehensive i think, or you used an unreadably small font, cos mine is about 8 or 10
 
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