> > Did you untar the stagex tarball before chrooting? This > is the message you get when the initial directories have > not been created. The make.conf is no big deal as it will > create that when it emerges. >
Yes, I untarred stage 1. now I have tried: emerge sync (get message about updating) emerge -p portage (list of packages) emerge portage runs for a while, then I get this error: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Is this a bug in the ebuild? -- Chris Bare [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list