Gentoo installation tips and tricks/sr-ec

Gentoo инсталација дозвољава врло флексибилан приступ различитим инсталационим методама. Како је скоро немогуће навести све 'tip or trick' у инструкцијама за инсталацију овај документ ће покушати да представи све постављене референтне 'tips and tricks'.

Напомена
Овај документ садржи различите 'tips and tricks' за инсталацијију Gentoo/x86. О њима је доста расправљано - сматрају се као додатак инструкцијама за инсталацију а не као замена.

Software RAID
Када сте покренули инсталациони диск, стартујте одговарајуће RAID модуле. На пример, уколико планирате да користите RAID-1:

Када креирате партиције диска обратите пажњу да оне користе  (Linux RAID autodetect) као Тип Партиције а не   (Linux native). Можете променити тип партиције користећи команду  у програму.

Пре него што почнемо да креирамо RAID блокове, неопходно је да креирамо metadevice nodes:

Након партиционисања, креирајте фајл (да, заправо, у окружењу Инсталационог диска) користећи наредбу , напредни алат за RAID management. На пример, како би сте дефинисали партиције boot, swap and root mirrored (RAID-1) на два диска и, можете корисити:

Драјвер Linux Software RAID покренуће креирање metadevices. Процес креирања можете пратити преко. Сачекајте да се metadevices потпуно креирају како би сте могли да безбедно наставите даље.

Од сада користите за boot партицију,  за swap партицију и  за root партицију.

Непосредно пре промене chroot, не заборавите да прекопирате у.

Када сте конфигурисали 'kernel' проверите да ли имате одговарајућу RAID подршку У вашем 'kernel'-у а не у модулу.

Приликом инсталације додатних алата, не заборавите да инсталирате и командом emerge. Овај алат није доступан на свим инсталационим дисковима па не можете инсталирати Gentoo у RAID-у када користите инсталицију без интернета!

Приликом конфигурисања вашег 'bootloader'-а обратите пажњу да је инсталиран у MBR на ОБА диска, уколико се користи 'mirroring'.

ATA RAID користи 2.4 kernel-е
Обратите пажњу да покренете Инсталациони диск користећи опцију. Када се покрене, проверите садржај. Треба да садржи различите директоријуме за сваки доступан хард диск у ATA RAID. Цео диск се приказује као док су партиције приказане као.

Запишите наведене 'device' фајлове на којима ће те инсталирати Gentoo. Потребно је заменити приликом инсталације са овим путањама.

Пре 'chroot'-а, bind-mount структуру у ново окружење:

Приликом конфигурације вашег 'kernel'-а проверите да ли сте омогућили подршку за ATA RAID чипсет и опције. На пример, популарни ATA RAID систем је Promise FastTrack built-in RAID у том случају неопходно је уградити  у ваш 'kernel'.

When configuring GRUB, you first have to create a GRUB bootdisk. This is not as hard as you think. First install GRUB as you would, but when you come to the part where GRUB is getting installed in the MBR, follow the following instructions:

You still need to write your file. This is no different from the installation instructions, just make sure that your  points to the ATA RAID device.

After finishing the installation, boot with your GRUB bootdisk. You will be greeted by a GRUB prompt. Now configure GRUB to boot from the ATA RAID device:

Now reboot (with the GRUB bootfloppy removed).

LILO users can safely use the instructions mentioned in the installation instructions.

Using the Installation CD kernel
If you don't want to compile a kernel yourself you can use the kernel from the Installation CD and copy it to your system. When you come to the point that you're asked to compile a kernel, go to another terminal (press + ) and log in with the root password you've supplied at the beginning of the installation.

Copy over the kernel and modules to your Gentoo system:

To have all modules that are currently running (from the Installation CD) loaded during bootup of your Gentoo system, run the following command from within the chrooted environment:

Verify the content and update appropriately.

Leaving your Terminal
Many people want to leave their system when it's compiling. In certain cases this is rather difficult as the installation is done in a public environment where you cannot trust everyone. If this is the case, you want to be able to perform the compilation in the background and log out from all terminals.

There are several possible solutions for this. The first one is to use. After booting the Installation CD, set your root password and start a screen session:

Once inside the screen session you can perform the entire installation. When you want to leave your terminal, press +,  (that is,  and  at the same time, then followed by a ) to detach your screen session. You can now safely log out of your system.

To regain access to your terminal, log in as root again and attach to the running screen session:

If you can't use screen, there is still a way to leave your terminal. Follow the installation instructions, but when you come to the point where a long-term compilation would be started (for instance the  step), use   which allows for a process to continue even when you log out. Don't forget the trailing "&", otherwise the process won't be placed in the background! Remember where you are (the  command will show you that) as you will need to know this later on.

Now exit the chrooted environment and the Installation CD session. Your compilation will continue in the background.

When you want to check the compilation, log in as root (on the Installation CD) and chroot back into your environment and go to the directory where you left off:

Now use the  command on the  file that is situated inside that directory. The compilation will append its output to that file, so if you want to follow the compilation progress, run  and press   to follow the changes. When the compilation is finished, you can continue with the next step of the installation instructions.

If you ever get tired of following the changes, press +  followed by a. This won't stop the compilation process, only the  process.

Extensive Testing of your Disks
If you think your disk needs to be thoroughly checked for consistency (bad sectors and such), you can use the  (that's lowercase c) option while placing the ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem on it (using  ). This will format, perform a read-test and mark all bad blocks as such. If you are really paranoid, use  to format your disk and perform an extensive read/write test.

Recovering from a malfunctioning installation
If for some reason your Gentoo installation fails, you don't have to redo the installation all over again. Instead, you can safely "go" to the point where you think you made a mistake (or where you think the instructions are flawed) and try a different approach.

First of all you need to chroot back into your Gentoo Linux environment. Follow the instructions again, but ignore the partitioning steps as your partitions are already created and even populated. You can therefore immediately mount those partitions at. You should also ignore the steps about stage extraction and modifying - you don't want to overwrite your files do you?

Once chrooted inside your Gentoo Linux environment, immediately go to the step where you think you should try a different approach. Don't redo all the steps like bootstrapping and such unless that is the place where you think things went wrong.

For instance, if you believe that you have a wrongly configured, you can immediately fire up your editor to update.

Once you have tried a different approach for your situation, you should consider how much of the subsequent steps you need to perform again. If the subsequent steps are depending on your change, you will need to redo those.

For instance,


 * if you have changed a variable inside you will need to do all subsequent compiling since those depend on the settings inside
 * if you have altered you can immediately exit the chrooted environment and reboot as no subsequent steps are depending on
 * if you have recompiled your kernel you only need to make sure that your bootloader configuration points to the correct kernel image (double-check that you mounted your !), then you can exit the chrooted environment and reboot
 * if you have altered you can exit the chrooted environment and reboot

As you can see, for most recovery operations you can immediately reboot. Only in certain cases will you need to redo the subsequent installation steps.