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Peter Martin posted <43A9CFDB.9070604@×××××.ca>, excerpted below, on Wed, |
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21 Dec 2005 16:57:47 -0500: |
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> Drake Donahue wrote: |
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>> sounds like you missed section 4e, Mounting, of the handbook " |
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>> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo |
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>> mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot |
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>> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot |
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> Thanks guys: |
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> I was absolutely sure I had done this, and that's why when the df -h |
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> command didn't show me the drives, I thought I needed another command. I |
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> went back, using the up-arrow, and discovered (what we'll call) a typo. So |
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> now things are looking right. I've continued on from section 4e, doing the |
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> stages thingie before doing the portage thingie. 'df -h' now says that |
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> hda3 has 73G (but who is quibbling) and 941M used. Thanks again for the |
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> help, I'm sure I'll be back again with another problem, but I'll be |
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> watching my typing more closely. |
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Very good to see someone conqueror one more problem! Yes, those |
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typos/"thinkos" get us all. =8^\ Thanks for the feedback! It's more |
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useful than many imagine, both for "rallying the troops" so to speak, and |
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practically, as where one errors, others too are likely to tread, and it's |
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useful to know what works. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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