McKrout Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 alrighty, im tryin this linux thing again and after reading a bit, it seems that gentoo is supposed to be pretty good and pretty fast. so i go and i install this little distro and im getting to the point where im almost done and im supposed to "emerge sync" but i cant. it apparenetly doesnt see my net connection and it cant get the packages for portage and seeing is im dog tired, i thought i would turn to you guys for some help cos i have no clue as to what im doing. any ideas would be appreciated, thanx in advance TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 Alrighty. It sounds like you didn't bring up your net connection, or, you didn't copy the /etc/resolv.conf into your new chrooted environment. Check to make sure that /etc/resolv.conf exists and that your DNS server is listed (should look like "nameserver ipaddress"). Did you manage to ping the outside world after setting up your net connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 Yeah, did you do a modprobe <yournetmodule> ? If not, go ahead and do it, otherwise you'll need to set up your connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bararum Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 around the 1st to second page of the instructions on gentoo it talks about setting up the internet connectionm id check that out if u just forgot to set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKrout Posted January 28, 2003 Author Share Posted January 28, 2003 you could say that i forgot it, i started with stage 3 cos i wanted to get the system up and running in the shortest amount of time, i'll boot back into it and try to set up the net connection then, thanx guys. TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 28, 2003 MVC Share Posted January 28, 2003 Um - the gentoo distro is great. But I am not sure this would be the distro for someone trying linux. You might want to go with more of "new to linux" user friendly distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 Yeah, BudMan. Gentoo is not a user friendly distro - yet. And while I love it to death, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't used linux before. And even then, you have to know what you're doing. While the docs on the site are great, you should really know what you're doing before you do it. Maybe in a year or two they'll have a (at least optional) GUI based install system similiar to other modern distros. Quite frankly, it would be nice if they let you set all the settings (make.conf, grub, XFree, fsetab, syslog, cron) before you began compiling. That way it could just compile and 'merge in' settings as needed...maybe I should be posting this on their forums. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaMMa Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 I hope Gentoo doesn't become a newbie distro, I like how you have to do everything yourself, and don't have a setup for you. I don't think the Gentoo people plan on turning it into a newbie distro either.... although they have made the install easier than the older versions... pci-setup is a big help and they've added autodetect stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted January 29, 2003 Veteran Share Posted January 29, 2003 well he said "again", so i'm assuming he's used linux before. so he has a little experience. what better way to truly learn stuff than to install gentoo? he wouldn't be learning anything new by just installing mandrake/rh/suse again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 29, 2003 MVC Share Posted January 29, 2003 Yes he did say "again" But the "cos i have no clue as to what im doing" is kind of a give away that he should not be trying gentoo ;) Now if he had been running some other distro for awhile, as his primary os - and was looking to move on to the next level. Then yes by all means give gentoo a try! But if this is only the second time your trying linux - and for whatever reason, you didn't stick with it the last time. I would not recommend diving into the gentoo distro. Now if your looking for the exultation of building your OS from source - then welcome to gentoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKrout Posted January 29, 2003 Author Share Posted January 29, 2003 hehe, well, me and linux have not gotten along great in the past to say the least. The major "newb" distros, as you call them, dont like my system in the least bit. Anything newer than 7.0 in the mandrake line locks at stage 2 install, red hat has never even begain to install, never tried suse, bsd wiped my entire drive (im sure i hit the wrong option somewhere) and i spent 3 days trying to get X to load with slack and after re-building a the kernel i got a really slow and prone to lock up kde to run, so i thought i would try something new. i knew that there was no easy to use install interface, i liked that idea, i prefer a chalange. and what i meant when i said i have no clue as to what i was doing, i meant with this distro, not in general. i am sorry if by some chance i seem to be a bit snappy, its about 4am here and i've been trying to get this thing to work for the past several hours since i got home from work. i was able to get the net connection established, but alas, i have screwed something else up and it wont allow me to build my kernel cos it tells me that ncursses (something like that, im hoping you know what i mean) is missing and it wont let me "make menuconfig." well, im tired and i need some sleep, thanx in advance. TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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