----- Forwarded message from Jonas Bandi <jbandi@scs.ch> ----- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:11:09 +0200 From: Jonas Bandi <jbandi@scs.ch> To: www@gentoo.org Subject: gentoo-x86-install: Listing 8.6: mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc Hello, I think in the current gentoo-x86-install guide is missing a detail: In code listing 8.6: Shouldnt there be a line like: # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/proc at the very beginning? I installed from stage1 and the /proc directory did not exist, so "mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc" fails. I did not care, but after rebooting with the new system the booting froze at "mounting /proc". First I thought something was wrong with my kernel-configuration, until I realized that I only had to create the directory ... Perhaps I made mistake and deleted the /proc directory some when during the installation without noticing. But if thats not the case this could be an issue for newbies (like me). I hope I could contribute. jonas ----- End forwarded message ----- ==== i just did a `mount -o loop i686-1.4-20030806-cd1.iso /mnt/cdrom` and checked the files inside the stages. I didn't see proc directory.. i didn't see this error when i installed 1.4 a while back though :/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I checked a stage1 tarball and the /proc is inside it: $ tar tvjpf /stage1-x86-1.4-20030806.tar.bz2 | grep proc [...] drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2003-08-07 04:23:21 ./proc/ LiveCD/stage peeps: could you make sure that all stage tarballs contain the /proc directory? It's not because 2.6 doesn't need it that it is obsolete for Gentoo :)
Just received mail from Jonas Bandi that he did find a ./proc in the stage1.
ok.. i blame gnome file roller for not showing the proc dir whereas tar shows proc dir does exist.. :)
