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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
well i figured id better start a thread for this....first problem, i don't think my network card is being recognized. so, how do i know which drivers to manually install? I have a Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter. However, i don't seem to see anything that mathces this. Any input?
 
Malcolm

Malcolm

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10-to-1 it will be compatible with the ne2k-pci, alot of cards that aren't listed as compatible really are.
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
hehe, i never got a chacne to post that i found my driver in the selection that was given to me, i was just using the wrong version of them. anyways, i went ahead an installed Gentoo, but i think i seriously messed things up when setting up the boot loader, and i somehow ended up crashing my whole system. It probably could have been fixed, but i decided to just format anyways cuz it gave me a chance to try out winxp. What could i have done wrong w/ the bootloader? I used Grub. I wanted to use lilo but it would give me a file not found error when i tried to set it up. i followed the directions directly as i was told to on the Gentoo web site, substituting the proper hard drivers. The boot loader should only be installed on my boot partition, right? And then in fdisk, the boot partition should be the only bootable drive, right? thanks
 
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Slougi

New member
mesman00 said:
hehe, i never got a chacne to post that i found my driver in the selection that was given to me, i was just using the wrong version of them. anyways, i went ahead an installed Gentoo, but i think i seriously messed things up when setting up the boot loader, and i somehow ended up crashing my whole system. It probably could have been fixed, but i decided to just format anyways cuz it gave me a chance to try out winxp. What could i have done wrong w/ the bootloader? I used Grub. I wanted to use lilo but it would give me a file not found error when i tried to set it up. i followed the directions directly as i was told to on the Gentoo web site, substituting the proper hard drivers. The boot loader should only be installed on my boot partition, right? And then in fdisk, the boot partition should be the only bootable drive, right? thanks
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Hmm, well I have always installed it right into the MBR.

ie:
Code: 
root (hdx,x)
setup (hdx)
"hdx,x" being the /boot partition and "hdx" the hdd. After that just make a grub config file in /boot/grub.
Propably you could have fixed it by boting from the cd, mounting the partitions, and running grub setup again :p
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
can someone give me a small example of the grub config file, so it will allow me to boot both winxp and gentoo linux, with XP as the default. thanks
 
Malcolm

Malcolm

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mesman00 said:
can someone give me a small example of the grub config file, so it will allow me to boot both winxp and gentoo linux, with XP as the default. thanks
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Code: 
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0) 
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 

title=Windows XP
root (hd0,5) 
chainloader +1

change (hd0,0) to where your boot partition is
change hda3 to where your root partition is
change (hd0,5) to where your windows partition is
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
thanks malcom, i saw that you were online, new it would be just a matter of seconds!
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
ok, question about partition, should all of my linux partitions be logical, or should they be primary. right now my XP partition is primary, how should the others be set up. thanks
 
Malcolm

Malcolm

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for linux it doesn't matter at all. Usually Windows gets all pissy when its not primary and the first partition (hda1).

But for linux, as I said, it doesn't matter.
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
ok, i got gentoo compiled and installed and the boot loader is all set and working. right now im in windows though cuz i have a few problems. first of all, right before linux ask me to login, it gives me an error which reads:

Failed to bring eth0 up
Error: Problem starting needed services
"netmount" was not started

how do i fix this?

also, other than the root login i don't think i have an actual user account. did i create this and not even realize it? also, linux doesn't boot right into X, how do i boot into X from the bash prompt. when i typed startkde i got an error. better yet, how do i make linux auto boot in X. thanks guys.
 
Hacktarux

Hacktarux

Emulator Developer
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to start xwindow just type 'startx'
To create a user accout u must use the command useradd or adduser depending on the link that has been creating during installation process... look at the man page to check the various options..

Concerning eth0 it's actually your network card... As i don't remember how gentoo guide you in configuration process i'll let someone more used to it explain... just one thing i've seen in the beginning of this thread that you had difficulties to install your ethernet card during install process, maybe you also have to install it in your final os now that it's actually installed
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
on top of the other problems....when i enter startx, x starts to load, then gives me the following error:

Log File: /var/log/xfree86.0.log
Unable to locate/open config file
Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
Fatal Server Error:
no screens found

am i supposed to create a log file or something for X? if so, can someone tell me what should be inside of it? or is there some way i can do this. i don't remember seeing anyting relating to this matter in the install steps. however, something obviously is wrong
 
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Slougi

New member
Create an xfree86 config file using "xf86config", in the end save it as "/etc/X11/XF86Config", the default. Also read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml

There are lots of other nice docs here: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/docs.xml

Hack: Gentoo uses XF86Config, not XF86Config-4 :)

As for user adding, "emerge superadduser", it is a script for easily adding users. Run it as root. (You prolly knew this :p)

As for the netmount thing, I don't know. You could ask on the gentoo forums, they might know better than me :) They are all very friendly over there.


If this doesn't make much sense, sorry. Just woke up after a 14 hour nap :p
 
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mesman00

mesman00

What's that...?
ok, i just seting up the network and stuff. the guys on the gentoo board are great, but know one has helped me yet w/ this problem. right now im tryin to install my desktop environment. im at the point where i type

emerge kde

and it starts installing kde from there. however, after doing a bunch of stuff it eventually gives me an error which says

error: segmentation failed
error: X11-libs/qt-3.1.0-r3 failed

what can i do about this? thanks
 
Malcolm

Malcolm

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You're probably not connected to the internet try this
Code: 
ping -c 5 [url]www.yahoo.com[/url]
if it comes back with an error then your eth0 problem that you stated above probably isn't resolved.
 
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