Re: [gentoo-user] newbie install - emerge: command not found

[Assaf Urieli <assaf@joli-ciel.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:52:22 +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote:
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>>BTW, /usr/bin doesn't even exist - all /usr contains is lost+found
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>Do you have a separate partition for /usr? If so, is it mounted?
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>What you describe is a classic symptom of installing /usr on its own
>partition and forgetting to add it to /etc/fstab.
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Oy vey, that was it! I knew I must be doing something stupid.
Feeling adventurous, I decided to create a 4th partition and mount /usr
onto it in my /etc/fstab, but on the other hand I didn't mount it while
installing gentoo (I thought somehow the fstab would be enough)...
So everything got installed on the root partition.
I corrected the problem by changing my /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda4
somewhere else, and now when I reboot my /usr/bin directory contains
everything that was installed on it.

So, just a couple of questions to get things organised in my brain:
If I wanted to mount the /usr partition while installing, would this
have been the right command? Would I have to make the directory first?
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/usr

In fact, I'm not even quite sure that I understand the whole concept of
mounting...
When I type:
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
Does the /mnt/gentoo directory already exist somewhere? If it didn't, I
imagine this statement would throw an error. But where can it exist if
it isn't yet associated with any partition (i.e. /dev/hda3)?
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
Where am I making this directory? I would assume this statement creates
the directory on /dev/hda3. But then, in the next statement, I'm
associating it with /dev/hda4!
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Another question:
Now that I've got an unused /dev/hda4 partition, what should I mount on
it? I can't mount /usr onto it cause /usr already exists on the root
partition & is full of stuff. Can I just invent any old name for
mounting (like say, /home), and then use it for storing data?

Sorry for the naive questions, but I'm trying to get my head around some
of these concepts...

Best regards,
Assaf

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