Gentoo Installation errors

[Ryand833]

I'm following the instructions given to me by Sage to install Gentoo from the Installer LiveCD, and having some issues. I've never installed Gentoo this way before.

First things first, the hard drive in this new box is a Serial ATA drive, and I believe the installprofile.xml references the /dev/hda device... but since i'm SATA, it needs to be /dev/sda, right?

Without changing anything, of course I get the error "There is no physical device /dev/hda detected to match the entry in the install profile...skipping"

I tried modifying the installprofile.xml to use /dev/sda, but am still getting these errors...

partitioning: Processing /dev/sda...
This is a bad thing. An exception occured outside of the normal install errors. The error was: '2'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 129, in partition tmppart_old = parts_old[device][tmppart_new['orig_minor']]
KeyError: 2

Another thing is also, that it's set to make the /var/media partiton of size 72 GB, and it won't let me change it. It's a 300GB drive.

Does anyone have any ideas? Maybe I should try a different distribution?

[jreichen]

It's been a while but I think I commented out the <partitions> element in installprofile.xml.

[Ryand833]

Ok, thank you for the reply. I'll give it a try and report back

[jreichen]

I forgot to mention that my partitions already existed and were formatted before running the installer. I'm dual-booting so the default partitioning scheme did not work for me.

[Ryand833]

I took your advice (in both posts) and created my own partitions with fdisk first, then deleted the partitions section from installprofile.xml, and now it appears to be working fine so far... Thanks!