after mucking around trying to ping bit-tech (modem cant auto detect dns servers(still couldnt)), i decide ill try to partition the 160gb ATA drive, but was quick to discover that fdisk couldn't open /dev/hda, so i ponder and end up poping in a Ubuntu live cd to see what it thinks of the drive, fdisk couldn't open it so i think to myself ill try gparted hopefully that will give a meaning full error to find to labeled as sda, grrrr.... Now to start again
try Code: cfdisk /dev/hda But are you sure your HD is primary master? What does the install CD detect upon boot?
im a lil confused about why but it went fine when using sda. could someone point me in the right direction about make.conf its got me a lil stumped. this is a amd 64 install on a duel core processor edit: is it possible to download packages and compile later, also is it possible to pause a complie and restart the machine, then start the compile a few hours later
Might I suggest man emerge? It is possible to download packages and not compile them, but the exact flag escapes me right now.
IIRC /dev/sda is a SATA hard drive, while /dev/hda is typically an IDE device (I think). So if you have SATA drives, they wouldn't be linked to /dev/hda.
Portage doesn't do that by default, however Ccache does enable it (without any extra commands, just configure ccache). But tbh, I had limited results with it (and now I don't use it, I just let long emerges do their thing during the night). Gentoo Wiki guide
With newer kernels all hard drives are labelled as "sd*" depending on kernel config. My IDE drive is /dev/sda and my SATA /dev/sdb, try ls /dev to see what's in there.
