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| 324947 | 2005-02-14 08:43:00 | At last I have installed Gentoo; off a "universal live cd" :D . I had a window of opportunity, time wise, last week and gave it another go! I didn't worry about setting up networking, apart from installing DHCPCD and rp-pppoe. I have an internet connection and first thing I did, when I booted into Gentoo the first time, was to update the Portage tree. I installed X11 & KDE, but I might need some help in configuring them so I have those nice GUI's. Just one thing, when I boot, and all the stuff flashes by, I think I got the message that reiserfs (which is my root partition) was read only. Could there be any problem with this? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 324948 | 2005-02-14 09:52:00 | No, it mounts it as read-only to start with, asks if it needs to be checked, then remounts rw Type: dmesg It'll show you those messages Glad to hear you got it sorted :) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 324949 | 2005-02-14 10:36:00 | Thanks Chill. Got that one sussed. Now, what about xwindows. When I type startx, I get a message which says "fatal server error: Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify bus IDs" Any ideas what I should do here? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 324950 | 2005-02-14 12:18:00 | Well done jcr1, I've got the Gentoo U L CD sitting ready to go myself, wanted to give it a crack last weekend but other committments got in the way, will try to squeek it in this coming. How long did it take on your system (specs) I think something is missing in you x86config but I wouldn't have a clue from there, although I did manage to get mine going in Yoper from the same error I can't find my notes right now :dogeye: I'd rather not put you wrong by trial and error. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 324951 | 2005-02-14 18:24:00 | Hi jcr1 Congrats on getting your Gentoo installed. :) With your X error, did you run Xorg -configure and when it was configured, remembered to copy the generated xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf? |
Jen (38) | ||
| 324952 | 2005-02-14 18:29:00 | Hi Murray It took me most of the morning while I floundered around with it, one day last week. I started at roughly 7-30 am, had most of it set up by 10am, up to installing and configuring Grub. My son came in & dragged me away to help him do some fencing. I restarted about 1.30pm and had the rest done by 3pm. This is my 3rd attempt. I printed out the handbook as I find that easier to refer to. As I said in my first post, I didn't configure networking and I think that made it better, this time, to set up an internet connection (for me anyway); networking can wait until I'm ready. My machine is a compaq 1.6 Ghz, 384 megs ram with 2 hard drives, I installed Gentoo on a partition on the 2nd Hdd (hdb2 boot ext3, hdb3 swap, hdb4 root reiserFS). It took me a bit to get my head around the FSTab and Grub, but I think I might be starting to get a glimmer of understanding. I would like to get x set up, then I can get KDE going; then install Firefox, Thunderbird and probably Open Office; then have a think as to what I might need after that. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 324953 | 2005-02-14 19:22:00 | Hi Jen Thanks I tried that command, but just got bad command (did it from su too) . But no, I didn't think of that one . There is a nice new but empty xorg . conf example file in /etc Hi jcr1 Congrats on getting your Gentoo installed . :) With your X error, did you run Xorg -configure and when it was configured, remembered to copy the generated xorg . conf . new to /etc/X11/xorg . conf? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 324954 | 2005-02-15 05:06:00 | I tried that command, but just got bad command (did it from su too). But no, I didn't think of that one. There is a nice new but empty xorg.conf example file in /etcDid you use a capital X in the command Xorg -configure? Unless you create an xorg.conf manually, or with one of the x-configuration tools, X will not load. All of this needs to be done as root. Have a look at this section on The X Server Configuration HOWTO (www.gentoo.org). You can either use Xorg -configure for automatically generating an xorg.conf or use the semi-automatic method with xorgconfig. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 324955 | 2005-02-15 05:53:00 | That doesn't sound to be too much of a hardship time wise, hopefully with an 1800+ and 512 of RAM I can knock a few minutes off that time . So, you just stopped and restarted?? didn't know that was possible, I guess you just don't input the next step and hit the go button, eh? It took me a bit to get my head around the FSTab and Grub, but I think I might be starting to get a glimmer of understanding . I'll be sticking with Lilo, I think, will probably use my existing one . Re Grub, I can't figure out why Grub (or those that made it) would change the naming conventions for hard drives, partitions, etc, there must be some horrendous stuff ups with people forgeting which drive or partition is which (or which boot loader) . Simply no need to change a perfectly good and understandable system, as far as I can tell . Looks like you've got some real help now for configuring X :thumbs: |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 324956 | 2005-02-15 08:32:00 | Thanks for that link, Jen. I was looking for something like that on the Gentoo site myself. I agree with your comments about Grub Murray P. A confusing system; good luck with Lilo. |
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