Gentoo Install - make.conf

[Shak]

Go to /usr/src/linux and type make menuconfig go to General Setup and have a look what it says under Processor Family

Shak

 

[[RB]]

Originally posted by Shak
Go to /usr/src/linux and type make menuconfig go to General Setup and have a look what it says under Processor Family

Shak

D'oh! Just started again from a stage 3 tarball. Well, I say started, it's just downloading now.

This may take some time .

[RB]

 

[Shak]

Ok, when you compile the kernel, make sure you do configure it properly

Shak

 

[[RB]]

I've been giving this some thought. I've got one 1.2GB, one 3.2GB and one 4.3GB lying around here. Will gentoo, fluxbox, phoenix, nedit and the java SDK fit onto the 1.2 GB disk? If so, I'm only gonna be using the box to do my Java work on so the files aren't gonna get that big. Should I bung in the 1.2 instead of the 4.3 currently in there?

Thanks

[RB]

 

[Nozzer]

I found installing it from stage1 ate ~90% of a 2GB disk (good old GCC and XF86 eat the majority, even cleaning the temp dirs out after each compile run), so I think you'll have trouble fitting it onto a 1.2...

Fully installed it's using about 1200-1300MB, which still seems a little on the high-side.

 

[[RB]]

Ok mate. I'll leave the 4GB in there for now.

On another note finally got the thing booting! But now, alas, another problem !

It uncompresses and gets to the :

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

Line, and then stops and hangs. Nothing, nada.

Any obvious things to try?

Thanks

[RB]

 

[Nozzer]

I think, you've set the root= wrong in your grub.conf... I think.

 

[[RB]]

Another problem .

When rebooting.

*  Remounting remaining filesystems readonly...         [!!]

/sbin/rc:  /bin/sync: No such file or directory
/sbin/rc:  /bin/sync: No such file or directory
/sbin/rc:  /sbin/sulogin: No such file or directory
/sbin/rc:  /bin/reboot: No such file or directory

[RB]

/edit just checked and "root=/dev/hda3"

 

[Nozzer]

That'll be because the root fs isn't mounted.

root= refers to the / filesystem (not /boot in this instance, good old grub), make sure that's right in the grub.conf (menu.lst too)

 

[[RB]]

Once again, same guy as before, same current problem. Sorry guys! I'll search on the Gentoo forums before posting here if there's any more problems.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=22004

[RB]

 

[Shak]

Good work sir, you can get a Gentoo install without X in 540MB:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             7.8G  540M  7.1G   9% /

This includes loads of stuff

Shak

 

[[RB]]

Well I'm stuck .

How do I go about recompiling? I've read your howto Mr Shak s'ah & I cant find the kernel tar file. Do I have to emerge it again to recompile it?

Thanks

[RB]

 

[Nozzer]

Originally posted by Shak
Good work sir, you can get a Gentoo install without X in 540MB:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             7.8G  540M  7.1G   9% /

This includes loads of stuff

Shak

Jesus, it's 540MB without X?! I thought this was supposed to be lightweight..?

 

[R4z0r]

Originally posted by Nozzer
Jesus, it's 540MB without X?! I thought this was supposed to be lightweight..?

Yeah it's pretty bloated in my opinion. If it wasn't for the groovy emerge system I would have dumped it (I've still got a good mind to use Debian instead!).

Perhaps that's why Mpemba and Shak are talking about 100Mb /boot partitions

 

[Nozzer]

Mind you, if I want extremely lightweight I'll go for Slack, I suppose Gentoo is fine for a desktop box, wouldn't get me using it on a server, I don't think.

 

[R4z0r]

Personally I like RH for servers. Debian rocks (I've only ever used Storm though!).

I'm going to be using OpenBSD soon for my uber secure mail server

 

[Baloo]

Originally posted by R4z0r
Yeah it's pretty bloated in my opinion. If it wasn't for the groovy emerge system I would have dumped it (I've still got a good mind to use Debian instead!).

Perhaps that's why Mpemba and Shak are talking about 100Mb /boot partitions

I don't think binaries are stripped by default though, so doing that would probably bring the install down 100mb or so.

 

[Shak]

20MB /boot

And on that install I have loaded loads of extra rubbish!

Shak

 

[[RB]]

It's alive!!!!!

Woohoo!

Final stages now! How do I get fluxbox, phoenix, nedit and the java SDK on there now?

Are ther any HOWTO's around on the subject?

or is it a simple case of 'emerge fluxbox'?

Thanks

[RB]

 

[Nozzer]

emerge fluxbox will do it.

It'll also install XF86 for you, I imagine... I did an emerge xfree86 first.