[Sussex] Getting brave ?, perhaps not.

[John D.]

On Monday 01 Dec 2003 12:10 am, Angelo Servini wrote:
First of all I would reccomend following the guide.   I am / was a
noobie at gentoo, and I probably would have got stuck pretty early on
if I had'nt stuck to the guide as much as poss.

Again according to the guide - I have a SWAP, BOOT and ROOT partition
+ 2 partitions under WINDOWS 98 as drives C: and D:

My linux ROOT lives alongside D: as an extended partition running
as ReiserFS.

This all works reasonably well using LILO to manage multi booting.  I
hope this helps.


To start with, because I only had a windows install, I downloaded the iso's 
with XP, but for the life of me I couldn't make any of the app's that I found 
for checking the md5sum.

So since I've got my mandrake install back in, I copied the iso's into 
mandrake and checked the md5sum there - they didn't match. So I downloaded 
the iso's again last night - this time the md5sums match - so I've burned the 
discs this morning.

Following the guide as closely as possible (obviously modifying to allow for 
my setup) I have started at the "filesystems, partitions and block devices" 
chapter with the "fdisk /dev/hda4" and checked with the "p" option which 
confirms that it can see hda1 (windows), hda2 (mandrake), hda3 (swap) and 
hda4 - where i tell it to go.

So I've then told it #mke2fs -j /dev/hda4 (which seems to be correct for ext3 
filesystem).

followed by #swapon /dev/hda3

I can then create the mount points doing the 

#mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
#mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
#mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Now I'm aware that I've got to use a "stage3" install (and I'll have to use 
the "grp" facility, whatever that is)

So, I do the cd /mnt/gentoo followed by the 
#tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-pentium4-20030910.tar.bz2

and off it goes into the unpacking, which it does for a couple of minutes 
until it gets to

./root/.ccache/

Where it stops and tells me something about previous errors and drops me back 
into a # prompt.

That's as far as I've managed to get, both last night using the disc's that 
are now in the bin, and the disc's burned this morning (using k3b under 
mandrake).

When booting the disc, I have just hit enter, too use the standard gentoo 
kernel (as far as I can work out) - should I try something different or 
should I use one of the available boot options ? Would that make any 
difference - my kit is pretty basic as far as I can tell and the list of 
possible boot options, nothing rings any bells!

Am I doing anything wrong (apart from trying to install it all to one 
partition) ? Because I'm absolutely stumped by this ./root/.ccache/ thing - I 
don't even know where to start.

regards

John