[SOLVED] Trying to Install Sabayon 16.07 KDE

codwwe348 · 05-23-2018, 10:33 PM

Yeah, I overwritten Windows 10 because I sometimes become impatient and am indecisive.

codwwe348 · 05-23-2018, 10:41 PM

How do I get past this? I rebooted sabayon and it gave me this.
Might be feeling stupid.
It constantly keeps saying hpet1 lost {number} rtc interrupts and does nothing.

Ztcoracat · 05-23-2018, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by codwwe348

How do I get past this? I rebooted sabayon and it gave me this.
Might be feeling stupid.
It constantly keeps saying hpet1 lost {number} rtc interrupts and does nothing.

I've never seen that output before.

Why did you abandon the installation and reboot?

codwwe348 · 05-23-2018, 10:52 PM

It told me it finished the install and said, just reboot and stuff.
Restarting back to the USB stick with the Legacy safe mode launch.

Ztcoracat · 05-23-2018, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by codwwe348

It told me it finished the install and said, just reboot and stuff.
Restarting back to the USB stick with the Legacy safe mode launch.

Did you click finish configuration? Did the configuration complete before you rebooted?

IF you rebooted w/o finishing the configuration you may have left your machine in a vunerable state.
-::::-NOT GOOD-! ! ! ::::-

codwwe348 · 05-23-2018, 11:15 PM

I am going to reinstall again.

Ztcoracat · 05-25-2018, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by codwwe348

I am going to reinstall again.

How did that go?

codwwe348 · 05-25-2018, 10:55 PM

Still had the same screen again. I think that might have been due to installing it from safe mode.
Had no other way really to boot it.

Ztcoracat · 05-25-2018, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by codwwe348

Still had the same screen again. I think that might have been due to installing it from safe mode.
Had no other way really to boot it.

Does Sabayon boot now?

codwwe348 · 05-25-2018, 11:08 PM

It let me log in, but it is like a non-gui login, so I can't do anything after I write my name on the sabayon login.

Ztcoracat · 05-25-2018, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by codwwe348

It let me log in, but it is like a non-gui login, so I can't do anything after I write my name on the sabayon login.

Ok-

So you can log in but all you have is a commandline text only?

codwwe348 · 05-25-2018, 11:27 PM

Exactly!

Ztcoracat · 05-25-2018, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by codwwe348

Exactly!

Ok in this case it certainly looks like you don't have a DE so you will have to install one.

Here is the page for how to use the package manager for Sabayon. I strongly suggest you learn how to use Entrophy or Equo.
https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?t...opy_or_Equo.3F

First you may want to update your installation.

To update everything at once you would run these commands one at a time. It will probably ask you for your password. These commands are on the page I linked.

Code:

 equo update
 equo upgrade
 equo conf update

Once Sabayon is updated you can than pursue installing the KDE desktop.

Ztcoracat · 05-26-2018, 12:22 AM

I got to thinking about different distributions and than I remembered that Slackware doesn't automatically boot up the first time to a DE either. The runlevel has to be changed. I had to change the runlevel from a 3 to a 4. Like this: id:4 initdefault

Since I'm not good with Sabayon I'm not sure if that is the case but it could be.

Did you use the bare minimum .iso w/o the DE?

codwwe348 · 05-26-2018, 08:48 AM

I ran the actual Sabayon 18.05 KDE with safe mode. I have a GUI when I boot it up that method, but I don't when I turn on the laptop regularly.
I am sure there are ways around it for me to get in.

Update: was able to do the first command, the other two said superuser required.