Beef Jerky + Gentoo Install != Success!

**ibowtotux** · 08-13-2005

Greetings,
Yesterday I became bored and decided to indulge myself. I purchased a good $20 worth of beef jerky (I tried several flavors and concluded teriyaki was the best) and whipped out my gentoo install iso I had been staring at for weeks. I spent several hours on the thing, but achieved a successful reboot. Just when I was about to crown myself King of all things great, I noticed I had a "minor" problem.
You see, somewhere in the install, I neglected to do a:

Code:

emerge dhcp

I have no network up on my machine so I can't emerge anything and I have some serious stomach problems because apparently eating $20 worth of jerky is *unhealthy*. Naturally, any help is most appreciated.

**Cabhan** · 08-13-2005

Check the dhcp ebuild and see where the code comes from (and the exact filename). Download it on another computer and copy it to /usr/portage/distiles. Then you'll be able to emerge it successfully.

**budman7** · 08-13-2005

Actually, if you use the gentoo cd, you can use it to chroot into your system

Code:

# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

Replace hda1 with whatever is correct.

**ibowtotux** · 08-13-2005

Originally Posted by budman7

Actually, if you use the gentoo cd, you can use it to chroot into your system

Code:

# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

Replace hda1 with whatever is correct.

budman,
I tried that previously and I received the same error as another person on the forums. I do:

Code:

# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc

and get

Code:

mount point /mnt/gentoo/proc does not exist

**ibowtotux** · 08-13-2005

oops: typo. The error it is giving me does not pertain to /proc. This is what I get when I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash:

Code:

chroot&#58; cannot run command '/bin/bash'&#58; No such file or directory

**budman7** · 08-13-2005

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

This just worked for me. In fact I am typing this from links on the Gentoo livecd.

**ibowtotux** · 08-13-2005

Thank you budman7, I was able to chroot into my system and install dhcp. But now it seems I have a bigger problem...
I still do not have internet, because I cannot ping anything or emerge. Yet when I go into /etc/init.d/ and run:

Code:

./net.eth0 start

it says eth0 is already up. So, I stop it and try starting it again. Now, eth0 won't start. I'm at a loss....

oz · 08-13-2005

if the other network configs are correct, make sure your nameservers are listed in /etc/resolv.conf

**budman7** · 08-13-2005

If I were you I wouldgo over the entire networking section again.
Just to make sure you didn'y miss anything else. 8b

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...ap=8#doc_chap2

**jaboua** · 08-14-2005

Another question, does there exist a "eth0"? Check with "dmesg|grep eth0", sometimes you simply forget the kernel module (or sometimes [or actually many times], the kernel module don't work, and the easiest option is to compile the whole ethernet driver (assuming it's an ethernet card) into the kernel.

As budman7 said, simply try the whole network section again from within the gentoo livecd and try again. If it doesn't work, there is a package whos name I can't remember which include the livecd's "net-setup" tool, which saved my first gentoo install by bringing me my dare internet

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