Gentoo Installation - Shut Down Midway - Will It Still Work?

[klusener]

ok, I installed gentoo from a livecd and because I had to go somewhere and had to turn off the computer, i just downloaded all the sources using emerge --fetchonly --emptytree system and then turned off the computer so I could come back later and emerge/compile the system. Should I have waited till everything was over and then rebooted or shut down or is it still going to work?

 

[dduardo]

No, it doesn't really matter. Just boot from the livecd again, chroot to the root partition and continue what you were doing before.

 

[ComputerGeek]

ok, I installed gentoo from a livecd and because I had to go somewhere and had to turn off the computer, i just downloaded all the sources using emerge --fetchonly --emptytree system and then turned off the computer so I could come back later and emerge/compile the system. Should I have waited till everything was over and then rebooted or shut down or is it still going to work?

Dude, Emerging takes so long you should have left the computer on when you left.

 

[klusener]

No, it doesn't really matter. Just boot from the livecd again, chroot to the root partition and continue what you were doing before.

ok, thanks. I was dreading going back and starting all over again.

Dude, Emerging takes so long you should have left the computer on when you left.

yeah, but there were people capable of turning off the computer unknowingly or intentionally (idiots) in the room. :p

 

[klusener]

ummm... this is kind of stupid, no, it is stupid, but how do you chroot back to the root partition?

I just booted the livecd and typed in cd / and then emerge --emptytree system, but it gave an error message saying emerge doesn't work and /bin/bash doesn't exist or something.

 

[dduardo]

I think the old saying, RTFM, is appropriate.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml