Installing Gentoo Beta 1 on the Kuro Box
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11. Getting Ready to Reboot

11. a. Double check networking settings

Check one more time that both net.eth0 and sshd are in the default runlevels:

Checking if the network will be active at reboot
KURO-BOX-EM etc # ls runlevels/default/
local net.eth0 netmount sshd
Notes: You should see the output exactly as is listed above.

Since we see "net.eth0" and "sshd" listed above, we know that our Kuro Box will be listening on the network when it reboots using the Gentoo Linux. However, you may still have problems if you did not specify your network settings properly.

11. b. Exiting the chrooted system and unmounting the directories

First, exit from the chrooted system:

Exiting the chrooted system
KURO-BOX-EM etc # exit
exit
#
Notes: You should see the prompt return to the uncolored # symbol.

Also, close your FTP connection from your client if it is still open.

Then unmount everything:

Unmount the Gentoo file system
# cd /
# umount /gentoo/var
# umount /gentoo/proc
# umount /gentoo
Notes:

11. c. Tell the Kuro Box to exit EM mode when it reboots and then shut it down

Write the OK message to the Kuro Box then shut the system down:

Send OK message and shut down
# echo -n "OKOK" > /dev/fl3
# shutdown -h now
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Fri Dec 17 08:25:55 2004... The system is going down for system halt NOW !!
Notes: That is a lower case L character in the /dev/fl3 line, not a one (1) character.

11. d. Taking a break

OK, I know you're excited and impatient to know whether your Gentoo system works... or not. But before starting it, you should really take a break. Just think about it:

• If it works, you will start to configure lot of stuffs, install new software, etc.
• If it doesn't work, you will have hard time to debug it, with lots of reboots in EM mode, etc.

In both case, you won't sleep tonight. So go and eat something, drink beer, play with kids, do an hour of yoga or five minutes of PowerBall, whatever, and come back once you are really zen.