Bug 27585 – alternative installation using knoppix 3.2 - having to mount /proc and /dev with bind option

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Hartwig Brandl 2003-08-30 02:35:17 UTC]

I've recently tried to install Gentoo 1.4 using Knoppix 3.2 and the Gentoo
Alternative Installation Guide.
When I only type:
mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
as suggested by the Installation Guide, I get errors of scripts unable to find
/dev/null. And finally the bootstrap.sh will freeze.

It can easily be fixed if the user runs 
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot using Knoppix 3.2
2. Follow the Alternative Installation Guide and later on the Installation Guide
3. notice how the bootstrap.sh freezes

Actual Results:  
bootstrap.sh freezes

Expected Results:  
boostrap.sh should have succeeded

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-01 02:14:40 UTC]

Created attachment 16893 [details, diff]
Patch to use the bindmounts instead

Are these two bind-mounts sufficient? Since Knoppix doesn't use DevFS (does
it?) I'm not sure that the Gentoo Installation works flawless with it.

[Comment 2 Hartwig Brandl 2003-09-03 03:51:04 UTC]

AFAIK Knoppix does not use DevFS, however those two mount commands seem to do the trick. at least they did for me three times by now.

please compare this thread too, it's the one where I got the idea from.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30760

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-09-07 03:09:50 UTC]

committed

[Comment 4 Hartwig Brandl 2003-09-09 15:30:58 UTC]

great, thanks.