Hi
fater failing to install Gentoo perfectly, i found Toorox and decided to install it.
the installation was done but it fails to boot. i doubt on the following steps:
1. i have another bootloader on my PC and added the lines in menu.list of toorox to the active grub. should i change the line in menu.list of toorox?
2. i installed toorox on ext4 partition. can toorox be installed on ext4? what is the recommended file system for toorox?
Regars

Hi hadian!

the boot failure reason is: toorox needs the toorox grub for booting correctly!
Overwrite your installation and then it seems to be work.
I have installed toorox 10.2009 on friday, with ext4. No problems !
with regards

fynn ;)

Hi hadian,

You have to add a second line to your existing menu.lst for Toorox:This is en example when Toorox is installed on /dev/sda8.
For /dev/sdb4 you have to add:
Greetings

Hi
i have installed toorox on hda10, and the related lines in grub (in my active grub of Fedora) are:

title Toorox
root(hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 vga=791 nomce noapic lang=us

should i reinstall the toorox and install its grub on MBR?

it should beHave you tried reiserfs for your Toorox installation?

i changed the line to root (hd0,9) but it failed again.
I reinstalled Toorox and this time i used reiserfs and asked toorox to install its grub on MBR. the system could boot without any problem. again i recovered the grub of Fedora and added lines in Toorox grub to Fedora grub and this time the toorox could boot :laugh: . it seems the problem was with ext4.

another question: this computer can connect to internet only via a pptp vpn connection. (i am new to KDE) how can i create a pptp vpn connection in KDE? is the required packages installed by default? if not, how can i download the packages using another system and install them in toorox?
Regards

hi hadian!
much fun with your running toorox system, without any boot problems!
i connect to web by a normal LAN, no vpn!
I had to look, where is a solution for vpn in KDE !
greetings
fynn

hadian,

install the following packages:

- networkmanager-pptp
- networkmanager-openvpn
- nm-applet

Then execute:

How can i install the packages while it is not connected to the internet? is it possible to download the packages by another PC, copy to this pc and install them? if yes, where should i copy the packages?

Hi hadian!
connect to the web on a free w-lan hot-spot!! Then you can load the packages by the package manager "porthole" in KDE
nice day
fynn


Sorry , sorry, is it a laptop??
fynn

No that is a desktop pc. I have fedora installed on this pc and can connect to web in Fedora. i downloaded the packages in .tar.bz format. How can i install them?

Okay,

The required source packages are:

- NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.1.tar.bz2
- NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.1.tar.bz2
- PolicyKit-gnome-0.9.2.tar.bz2
- lzo-2.03.tar.gz
- mobile-broadband-provider-info-20090602.tar.bz2
- network-manager-applet-0.7.1_p20090824.tar.bz2
- openvpn-2.1_rc20.tar.gz

You can download them from here:
distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/

Then mount your Toorox partition and move the packages into:
/usr/portage/distfiles

Start Toorox and install the 3 packages:

- networkmanager-pptp
- networkmanager-openvpn
- nm-applet

Greetings Joern

Thanks. i installed the packages and created the VPN connection. but when i want to connect to it, it fails with this message:the other problem is that i should manually start the service and applet by "sudo /etc/init.d/Networkmanager start" and "kdesu nm-applet". is it possible to do these commands automatically when the kde starts?
Regards

Sorry, i forgot the pptpclient.

Download with Fedora the following packages:

- iproute2-2.6.29-1.tar.bz2
- pptp-1.7.2.tar.gz
- pptp-command-20050401.gz

move them into /usr/portage/distfiles of Toorox.
Then install: pptpclient

Thanks. it is working now! :laugh:
would you please let me know how i can make it to start automatically (i mean starting Networkmanager service and nm-applet)?