The short answer is no, effectively if are doing stage1 you are boot strapping Gentoo... (wow, the script is even called bootstrap.sh ;-) ie you are being the system incrementally to enable you to build the system.
Ignore the message about a new version, follow the install guide ;-) On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:36, Ing. Martin Gauklitz wrote: > i am new to gentoo linux and tried to install it from stage1. > > i followed the instructions from the installation doc from www.gentoo.org. > but when it comes to the chrooting into the new installation the first > "emerge sync" says that there is an update to portage available and that i > should update before i install other packages. > > so i tried an portage update like described in the "portage user guide" with > "emerge -u system". then some packages are downloaded, compiled and installed > until it comes to the "ncurses" (ncurses-5.3-r1) package, configure fails with > the following message: > > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > > why does this error occure? shouldn't i update portage as it says after > the first "emerge sync"? can't portage update in this stage? how can i > solve this problem? shouldn't i update portage at all? > > regards, > martin > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Lloyd D Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
