Not to get on you're case or anything, and I understand that one can have
problems time to time with installation, but Have never installed a Linux distro
(sutch as Gentoo) where one has to do a lot of manual configuration sutch as
setting up a partition scheme or installing a bootloader up intil recently. What
a mouthfull ;) I followed the manual, steb by step and everything installed
fine. Here I am using Gentoo at its fullest, emerging the latest software.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:00:45AM -0600, Samuel MacDonald wrote:
> Have I tried Gentoo for the last time?
> 
> I've followed the instructions to the letter

I had some problems installing at first too, then I discovered that I was
following the wrong instructions. If you got the LiveCD, it has the out-date
installation instructions (known as the ``Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation
Instructions'' that you can find at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml. The latest and
most updated installation instructions are located in the Gentoo Handbook. Take
a poke at them at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1

> I've used the "printed" instructions as a check list to install
> I've used both Grub and Lilo as the boot loader
>    Lilo is the present boot loader

Use GRUB. Unless you have a non-x86 archetecture then GRUB is the only
bootloader that you _should_ use. You can use LILO, but even the documentation
advices to stick to GRUB.

> 
> I get the same results with either boot loader
> Reboot, Reboot, Reboot
> 
> I've booted with the CD to look at the files to see if I fat fingered
>    nope...
> I've looked at lilo.conf and fstab

As I said, GRUB ;)

> I've changed settings of the both and put them back
>    nothing wrong... according to the instructions
> 
> I just can't figure out what I've done that prevents this from working.
> I want this to work but it's now become a joke that it doesn't work
> I've installed from scratch 5 times and I get the same results every time.
> 
> I know your all thinking "what's he doing wrong, the dope!"  I've followed
> the instructions from the Gentoo website to the letter.
> 
> The only thing I can think of that may be causing this, is that I used 
> dban to
> wipe this disk before I started.
> 
> Sam.

Good luck man, just take things slow and dont get frustrated over a silly
computer.

> 
> IMHO
> I believe that any average user would have put M$ on this machine

... or read and did exactly what was told on the documentation :)

> by this time.
> 
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