I got all the way through the GUI installer after a fair amount of trial and error. My final pass through finally got to the "Install complete" message. After rebooting the machine from its own hard drive, the whole system came up and was basically totally happy, except for one thing: it cannot resolve hostnames. It is happy to connect to other hosts if you specify them by IP address. But it seems not to know how to try to use DNS to resolve hostnames.
You didn't provide any relevant information whatsoever wrt your network setup.
(In reply to comment #1) > You didn't provide any relevant information whatsoever wrt your network setup. Sorry for that. We're on a fairly standard company lan. My other gentoo machines were pretty much born knowing how to hit DNS servers to resolve hostnames. Maybe a little play-by-play would help: beachey@arthur ~ $ ping hesston ping: unknown host hesston beachey@arthur ~ $ ping hesston.garmin.com ping: unknown host hesston.garmin.com beachey@arthur ~ $ ssh hesston ssh: hesston: Temporary failure in name resolution beachey@arthur ~ $ ssh hesston.garmin.com ssh: hesston.garmin.com: Temporary failure in name resolution beachey@arthur ~ $ ping www.gentoo.org ping: unknown host www.gentoo.org beachey@arthur ~ $
Sigh... are you trying to say that DHCP doesn't work for you? Does /etc/resolv.conf exist?
(In reply to comment #3) > Sigh... are you trying to say that DHCP doesn't work for you? Does > /etc/resolv.conf exist? Sorry to be so vague. This machine (and my others) uses a static IP address, although DHCP is offered on the lan. I have opted for static IP and a listing in DNS so I can have other people hit my machine for testing purposes. /etc/resolv.conf is identical to the ones on my working machines. Our network guru looked at it for a while and walked away stumped. He thought maybe there was some missing library or something. He's not a gentoo user, so he couldn't offer any gentoo-specific advice...he's all Debian and SuSE and Red Hat.
