From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7bPL-0005aI-Cj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:13:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7NGC5DS004036; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:12:05 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.198.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NG8OBL018060 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:08:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.123.141] (c-24-19-159-167.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[24.19.159.167]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <2005082316090701400hg56ne>; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:09:17 +0000 Message-ID: <430B4A61.4030005@munat.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:10:09 -0700 From: Ben Munat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found References: <430B3304.2000507@joli-ciel.com> <430B3CF5.6070304@planet.nl> <430B458A.5020201@joli-ciel.com> In-Reply-To: <430B458A.5020201@joli-ciel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8ffb4069-de27-4389-820e-89f37255b47f X-Archives-Hash: cbd372aff64505f92b3974beb5902e81 Assaf Urieli wrote: > Holly Bostick wrote: > > >>>So, when I restart, everything looks allright. Grub asks me to choose >>>Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6, which I do. I can then login fine. >>>But when I try to run the emerge command, I get: >>>emerge: command not found (no surprise, it's not in /bin). >>> >>>Have I missed a step? >>> >>> >> >>Are you trying to run emerge as a user? It can only be run as root >>('command not found' often indicates that, assuming that the application >>is installed, which in this case we know it is. The command cannot be >>found in the user's $PATH-- because and so that the user cannot use it-- >>but in root's $PATH). >> >> > > Nope, I tried to create a user, but the adduser command couldn't be > found either. Neither can the find and whereis commands. > Apologies if this is completely obvious, but you did say "newbie"... :-) After you "select Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6" do you see a lengthy boot process or do you get a command line instantly? It occured to me that you could somehow be getting to the grub command line, which has about a dozen commands... definitely no "emerge", "adduser", etc. Ben -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list