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 1E7qmI-0003aK-Lo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:38:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7O8aBBh016773; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:36:11 GMT Received: from mail.capital-internet.net (mail.capital-internet.net [216.136.66.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7O8UleU032485 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:30:48 GMT Received: from [84.4.39.34] (unknown [84.4.39.34]) by mail.capital-internet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C2BEE4F40 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:31:47 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <430C3080.4070606@joli-ciel.com> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:32:00 +0200 From: Assaf Urieli User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) 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> <430B38FA.60802@gmail.com> <430B4636.4050500@joli-ciel.com> <20050823171948.26fa3e95@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050823171948.26fa3e95@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eb16ddf9-b71d-48cc-86ec-a4e3d008f59f X-Archives-Hash: ff4ebd88b2a2085178801b7c44427316 Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:52:22 +0200, Assaf Urieli wrote: > > >>BTW, /usr/bin doesn't even exist - all /usr contains is lost+found >> >> >Do you have a separate partition for /usr? If so, is it mounted? > >What you describe is a classic symptom of installing /usr on its own >partition and forgetting to add it to /etc/fstab. > > 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 > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list