What did I do wrong? (Gentoo)

[TacticalFart]

I installed Gentoo, but can't install a WE/DE. last night I used "emerge gnome" and it stated it was going after 244 packages (when someone else said 255). Just this morning (when it finished) it stated after number 220 or 230, that it failed. Also when I did some searching on this site, someone else described similar symptoms that I was having, and another said he was using a "vanilla XSession." I would boot to "local host", login as "root" with my password, and be giving two windows. One has system log, shutdown, and two other buttons, and a terminal box, and that is it. I used "emerge -vG kdebase" and finished the install, but, enven after editiing the Xsession Variable in rc.conf (as presribed by sinfulfate, as she said to try KDE instead of kde-3.5), it still booted me to the vanilla Xsession.
I just did a fresh install. If I get that Xsession, I skrewed up, right?

[Extreme_Dude23]

Try formatting your HDD, and try again.

[TacticalFart]

I figured out what I did wrong. I left the "#" in front of the XSession in rc.conf. But now I have a new problem. I got KDE up, but I can't access my media drives. I also want to hook up my external hard drive through USB. Whenever I try to get into anything but sda1, it says "Feature only available with HAL." What does this mean? I used "emerge HAL" and it failed.

[Sinfulfate]

Originally Posted by TacticalFart

I figured out what I did wrong. I left the "#" in front of the XSession in rc.conf. But now I have a new problem. I got KDE up, but I can't access my media drives. I also want to hook up my external hard drive through USB. Whenever I try to get into anything but sda1, it says "Feature only available with HAL." What does this mean? I used "emerge HAL" and it failed.

Good to see you got KDE working Did you set the drives up correctly in the install? As for the usb external drive are you typing in everything to get it to work? Will any other usb devices work?

[TacticalFart]

Yes. I have a my key board and mouse working. But I can't mount anything. I can't even get into my sd or disk drive. And when I plug in my External Hard Drive, I get no indication it has been detected, but it was detected when I used ubuntu (although it was read-only). I think I know what HAL does but I can't emerge it. Is there another method? Would pasting my fstab.conf help anyone?

One more idea. The install instructions say to use "Emerge -vG kdebase" and that it does a minimum install by checking the BINHOST for precompiled binaries designed for the PS3. What if I omit "-G"?

One last idea. If all else fails should I go with Gnome? Or does it matter.

[Sinfulfate]

Originally Posted by TacticalFart

Yes. I have a my key board and mouse working. But I can't mount anything. I can't even get into my sd or disk drive. And when I plug in my External Hard Drive, I get no indication it has been detected, but it was detected when I used ubuntu (although it was read-only). I think I know what HAL does but I can't emerge it. Is there another method? Would pasting my fstab.conf help anyone?

One more idea. The install instructions say to use "Emerge -vG kdebase" and that it does a minimum install by checking the BINHOST for precompiled binaries designed for the PS3. What if I omit "-G"?

One last idea. If all else fails should I go with Gnome? Or does it matter.

Are you typing in dmesg first for the external harddrive? And KDE isnt the cause of your problem. This should help you.

Originally Posted by blade47167

Is it possible to read the PS3 BD as DVD drive, USB drive, and SD? If yes, how do we do this? Thanks.

If you followed the instructions on the wiki your fstab should already have the dvd drive and the sd slot.

SD Card:
Open up your terminal and type mount /mnt/sd

CD Drive:
Open up your terminal and type mount /mnt/cdrom

Now for your usb:
Plug the device in and type dmesg. It should appear somewhere on the bottom with the name and device location. Should be sdf1.

You will need to make a directory in your mnt folder for it.

Open up another terminal and type: mkdir /mnt/usb
That will create the directory.

Now type:
mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/usb
that should mount the drive and all files will show up in your /mnt/usb directory.

You can also add the usb drive to your fstab file to make it simpler to mount but I sometimes have trouble with my usb drive jacking my sd slot so I just leave it as it is and only plug it in after linux is up and running.

Hope this helps.

[TacticalFart]

If it helps, heres my fstab.


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#

# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/memstick auto noauto 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/sd auto noauto 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
none /spu spufs default 0 0


This is a cut and paste so the lines aren't exactly perfect. My actucal fstab's spacing matches the walkthrough(s).

Anyway, now I can read the drive, but can't write or delete. And just to see what would happen (out of curiosity) I typed "mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sd". It said that the special drive does not exist, and I have a card in there too. I messed up somewhere and I'm gonna kick myself when it gets pointed out.

edit: Also something else. The external drive is formated under FAT32, and when I tried other distros, it was read-only. The only distro I haven't tried yet is FC6.

[Sinfulfate]

Im not quite sure what the problem is sorry Only advise I can give is to ask here

[TacticalFart]

Thanks anyway. If it weren't for you I would have probably given up by now and settled for *shudders* YDL... If you and Mr. T were to walk into a bar, it would explode on the spot, because it's impossible to contain that much awsomness in one building.

[Sinfulfate]

Originally Posted by TacticalFart

Thanks anyway. If it weren't for you I would have probably given up by now and settled for *shudders* YDL... If you and Mr. T were to walk into a bar, it would explode on the spot, because it's impossible to contain that much awesomeness in one building.

hehe thanks its always good to feel appreciated