I am trying to install Gentoo Linux on a PII 333Mhz system with 128MB RAM, 10 GB Hard drive, which is a standalone system - ie has no connection to the internet or an LAN. I also have a Win XP system which I use to connect to the internet. I have got to the point of installing the portage tree. I have followed the instructions to the letter. Since the system I am using is a standalone, I donwloaded the snapshot file portage-20030518.tar and dumped it on a CD. I have tried to copy the file to the /usr directory, but I keep getting a message saying that it is a read only file system. I have tried a chmod to o+r+w /usr but I still get a message "Read only file system" Suggestions??? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
It's me again... :) What does the output of the "mount" command say? There's two possibilities happening here. Either your /usr is mounted somehow onto a read only device (like a CD), or there's a boottime error that's happening causing your file system to be mounted read only. Check the boot log ("dmesg") and see if you notice any errors. Post them back if you have any.
The output of the mount command is proc on /proc type (rw) none on /dev/type devfs (rw) tmpfs on /mnt/.init.d type tmpfs (rw,mode=0644, size=2048k) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbdevfs on proc /bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660(ro) /mnt/cdrom/livecd.cloop on /mnt/cloop type ext2 (ro) tmpfs on / type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /mnt/gentoo/boot tpye ext2 (rw) /proc on /mnt/gentoo/boot type ext (rw) /proc on /mnt/gentoo/proc type none (rw,bind) /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages on /mnt/gentoo/GRP type none (rw,bind) /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 on /mnt/cdrom1 type iso9660 (ro) I looked at dmesg and the only errors I could find were relating to not finding a PNP network card, other than that, there is nothing relating to the mount point /usr.
Some more info I did a ls -l /usr and got the result lrwxrwxrwx /root root 13 May 22 06:52 /usr -> /mnt/cloop/usr I looked at the contents of /usr and also /mnt/cloop/usr and they are identical!!! Does this mean that somehow there is a link between /usr and /mnt/cloop/usr??? If this is the case then how do I go about unlinking these directories??? I have tried the unmount /mnt/cloop/usr command only to be told that the unmount command is not found. Suggestions??
I managed to copy the file to /mnt/gentoo/usr. The reason I was trying to copy it to /usr was that in the FAQ's it said to download the portage tree and copy it to /usr, but if you do a chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash then /mnt/gentoo becomes /. I have now managed to extract the portage tree and do a env-update successfully (at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I have now got to the point of updating the system using emerge sync emerge -up world emerge -u world I get an error when I used emerge sync saying that rsync://URL in here was not available, which is understandable as my linux PC isn't connected to the internet. I get a list of packages to be updated from emerge -up world. But when I do emerge -u world then it looks for zlib-1.1.4.tar.bz2 from www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distibutions/gentoo/distfiles/ which since my PC isn't connected to the internet is not possible. If I download this file, then how do I update the system without connecting to the internet??????? I also tried installing the kernel but it is also looking for a file from the internet - linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2. Likewise if I download this file then how do I install the kernel without connecting to the internet????????
put all files you download into /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
