Missing Commands

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

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

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whereis iwconfig

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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)

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fdisk -l

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

Also, post the output of:

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echo $PATH

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It seem as if your binaries in /usr/bin are missing...if something is failing to mount, that could be killing you. 8)

Thanks,
I'll try this out.

mj

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

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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

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the results of echo $PATH are:

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

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

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/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

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

mj

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?

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

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emerge -av ftp xfce4-base xmms

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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.

Variant, thanks, I'll try it out.

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

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.