Monty;

I did view the output of mount, and umounted the /usr partition, and
re-mounted the /usr partition, and everything else that I could think of.
and yes, /mnt/gentoo/usr is the mount point during install (at least it is
until you chroot ;-)

Anyway, as succeding post states, all water under the bridge now.  It's up
an happily buzzing along.  I do highly recommend it so far, as long as you
have the time it takes to download an re-compile everything.  The bsd style
ports package (emerge) is totally cool.  DL's, applies a set configuration
for processor, etc, and builds/installs all at the same time.

Thanks,
Chris Midkif

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monty J. Harder" <lists@kc.rr.com>
To: "Chris Midkiff" <chris@datacaptech.com>; <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: gentoo linux

>
> "Chris Midkiff" <chris@datacaptech.com> wrote:
>
>
> > did not see any errors stating that it could not copy files to /usr, and
I
> > hunted around quite a bit and can't see any of the files that should be
> > there.  Whole partition is just blank. The / part contains a blank /usr
> > (mount point, really) and the /usr partition is just empty.  The distro
> > appears to put lots of stuff there (and rightly so) during install, I
> don't
> > know what happened to it.
>
>   How do you know that the /usr you're looking at is a =partition=?  The
> partition that is =supposed= to be mounted there might be just fine, only
> unmounted.
>
>
> > I wiped the machine, set up _just_ the partitions that they recommend,
and
>
>   Before I did that, I would have typed
>
> # mount
>
> and found out what filesystems were actually mounted.  You might find that
> they were either unmounted, or maybe mounted in the wrong place (like that
> /mnt/gentoo/usr yoiu mentioned, which sounds conspicuously like where the
> partition is mounted during the install process, as the installer has its
> own /usr)
>
>
>
>
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>