gentoo go good

[Joshua Bergland]

clarification:

To make it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less /etc/fstab' and right 
down which partitions there are and where they are mounted, that way all 
you have to do is mount them...

Do that step on the running gentoo system, before you reboot and boot 
off of the install cd

Josh

Joshua Bergland wrote:

> You want to head over to forums.gentoo.org ... lots of good info and 
> helpful people ... if you feel comfortable enough, you can download 
> the install iso image and burn that to a cd, and then use the gentoo 
> install document (link below) and follow it up to the point of running 
> the 'chroot' command to get into the gentoo linux environment on the 
> system... you are then actually logged into the system as root and can 
> run 'passwd' to change the root password.
>
> Here is the link, it contains links to the install images ... Of 
> course, just skip the part about creating the filesystems and since 
> your not doing anything with the network, you can skip that part 
> too... To make it easier, I would boot up and do an 'less /etc/fstab' 
> and right down which partitions there are and where they are mounted, 
> that way all you have to do is mount them... So I guess that means, 
> boot with the cd, and do steps 7 & 8, and then run the 'passwd' 
> command, and then reboot the system... You then can log into the 
> system as root ... In Gentoo, if you want to be able to 'su' to root, 
> add her user to the 'wheel' group.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
>
> Josh
>
> David Reynolds wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 08:30 pm, Eric Rossiter proclaimed:
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>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> Gentoo is slick, man... been slowly getting acclimated and I have a few
>>> questions, if I may.
>>>   
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>> I've got a friend who was 'given' gentoo by her ex, but either I am 
>> not as smart as I think I am, or she has been severely crippled.
>>
>> Her ex did not give her a root password. Hence, she cannot do things 
>> like change the time, emerge/update programs, or a host of other 
>> things I do regularly on my system. Now he's shipped out and she has 
>> no access to him for a month plus. When she types 'groups', she gets 
>> only 'users'; my account on my computer on the other hand has about a 
>> dozen groups I am member of. Which is to be expected?
>>
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>>> As a normal user, I can't start gdm or kdm, tells me only root wants to
>>> do that.  I tried the fix suggested in the gentoo forums to no avail.
>>> Any other ideas?
>>>   
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>> Where are these forums please? And would they be ANY help to a person 
>> just starting off of Windows? I feel bad that I am about to send her 
>> back to Windows, but I did suggest trying something like Mandrake or 
>> RedHat.
>>
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>>> Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>> E
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>> Hope I'm not intruding on your thread,
>> David
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