Missing Commands

[whiteheadian]

Hello,
I've recently installed gentoo (w/ 2.6 kernel), and it seems to be running ok, except that many linux commands seem to be missing! when I try to run # ftp, for example, I get "bash: ftp: command not found" the same thing happens when I try to run "iwconfig" (I'm trying to get my wireless card working). Is this related to my file system problem?

when my computer boots up and starts its checks, I get a message that says

"wrong fs type, bad option, or too many mounted file systems. Some local file systems failed to mount"

How do I take care of these two problems?

thanks, mj

[Flatline]

Are you sure the commands are gone? They may just not be in your path. As root in a terminal, type

whereis iwconfig

and see if you get anything. If not, you may need to install a package...in Suse it's wireless-tools, but I have no idea what it is in Gentoo.

The second problem is usually related to an error in your /etc/fstab file...if you run (as root)

fdisk -l

and post the output, along with your fstab file, we may have something to work with.

[sarumont]

Also, post the output of:

echo $PATH

It seem as if your binaries in /usr/bin are missing...if something is failing to mount, that could be killing you.

[whiteheadian]

Thanks,
I'll try this out.

mj

[whiteheadian]

Okay, here's the results of my fdisk -l:

device        boot      Start              End           Blocks        Id    System
/dev/hda1     *            1                 63            31720+     83    Linux
/dev/hda2                  64             1056         500472        82    Linux Swap
/dev/hda3               1057             38760     19002816      83     Linux

the results of echo $PATH are:

/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin/:/usr/i386-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3

Finally, my /etc/fstab file reads as follows:

/dev/hda1                    /boot            ext2        defaults,noatime        1 2
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0    /mnt/cdrom   iso9660    noauto,user              0 0
/dev/hda2                    none             swap        sw                           0 0
/dev/hda3                     /                  ext2         noatime                   0 2
none                            /dev/shm       tmpfs     novdev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
none                           /proc/bus/usb  usbfs       defaults                    0 0

(everything is lined up, of course)
Let me know what you think...

mj

[Flatline]

One more thing...which device does it say "wrong fs type, bad option, or too many mounted file systems. Some local file systems failed to mount" about at boot?

[variant]

If you have just installd gentoo then you won't have any other optional packages installed you will have to run

emerge -av ftp xfce4-base xmms

or whatever else you want installed.

(yes I noticed your other post and xfce is not an ebuild, its called xfce4-base)

also you should install "esearch" and run "eupdatedb" then you can "esearch xfce" and it will show all the packages available with xfce in the title.

[whiteheadian]

Variant, thanks, I'll try it out.

Flatline-- I get the error message at boot, right after "Mounting Filesystems"

[variant]

All I can think of is that you have specified the wrong filessystem type in the fstab for /boot. in your fstab you have /boot mounted as ext2.. are you sure thats what it is? perhaps you made it ext3 instead but forgot to alter the fstab.. do you rememebr running "mke2fs -j /dev/hda1"? if you use -j with mke2fs it will make a ext3 filesystem not ext2. all the rest seems to be correct. allthough ext2 seems a strange choice for the root filesystem (if this was the problem then the pc wouldnt even boot - so its not this) as ext3 or reiserfs is much more appropriate.