[gentoo-dev] help_installation

[gentoo-dev] help_installation

[Karshi]

Hi,

  I am trying to install the new version of Gentoo (rc5), but the
installation help did not help me much.

1)For example, it does not tell us how to make " reiser" or "ext2" file
format.  I did make partitionns using
  'fdisk', but don't know the way to format it.
2) It says " mount your root/boot to '/mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/boot",
but it does NOT show how to do it.


I would appreciate if someone help me out with these questions.
Thanks

Re: [gentoo-dev] help_installation

[Thread]

> 1)For example, it does not tell us how to make " reiser" or "ext2" file
> format.  I did make partitionns using
>   'fdisk', but don't know the way to format it.
so, you've fdisk'd all your partitions to be the sizes you want. Now, to make a reiserfs partition, just do:

mkreiserfs /dev/hda1

or the equivalent depending on which paritions you'd like to filesystemize. :)


> 2) It says " mount your root/boot to '/mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/boot",
> but it does NOT show how to do it.

let's say your root filesystem is hda1. to mount that to /mnt/gentoo, make sure that /mnt/gentoo exists (if not, mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo) and do:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot

again, i'm assuming that hda1 is your root partition and hda2 is your boot. you'll surely going to need to fix those numbers for your specific install.

hope that helps out. if not, drop by #gentoo on the openprojects irc network (irc.linux.com, irc.debian.org, etc.)

[gentoo-dev] rc5_r0 no kernel merged?

[Gontran]

Dear Gentooise,

Installed today from original rc5 iso, things went smoothly by following 
the first revision of the rc5 install docs provided on this list 
and adding a dash of the current rc5_r3 docs online.

One thing I noticed, which seems rather impossible, but did happen was that
after successfully running 'emerge --usepkgs system' no linux kernel seems
to have been installed.

I didn't believe it myself, but neither /boot nor /boot/boot had any thing
like a kernel in it.  I discovered this while looking for /lib/modules to
find a module for my 3com pcmcia NIC.  My solution was to emerge the 
linux-sources and build and install (thx achim on #gentoo). 

Also when installing grub, after building and installing custom kernel, I 
needed to copy the grub dir and my new kernel from /boot/boot/ to /boot for 
the grub program to find them and install to the MBR properly.  I'm new to
running GRUB, so this may just be a misunderstanding on my part.

Lastly, I needed linux-extras emerged to get pcmcia-cs related goodies. This
would be nice to see in the install guide (unless I missed it). Also I second 
any re-addition of the specific 'mkreiserfs /dev/hXX' instructions mentioned 
in an earlier thread.

Having tried both rc4 install and rc5, rc5 is light years ahead of rc4.  
By that analogy: rc5 has been delivered at a rate faster than the speed of 
light!

Cheers,
Gontran