Ok, tried to install about three times so far...all unmitigated disasters. I run into the same problem every time, following the same routing. I follow the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions to the letter, using stage2-athlon-xp. My problem happens every time I get to 5.d. Configuring the Compile Options. The first problem, although I don't know if this contributes to my installation problem, is that when I go to set variables in /etc/make.conf (using their exact instruction: # nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf), I see that all of the variables after CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS are commented out. Again...I don't know if that's part of the problem or not, but I've tried with the variables commented out, and without them commented out, and I have the same problem each time, so probably not part of the problem. Anyways, so then I try to select a fast mirror, and I don't think that's working. I type
# mirrorselect -a -s4 -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf and all it does is tell me that one server doesn't exist...one that seems to be from the netherlands, or something. Doesn't say anything else about any other servers, so no idea if it's actually doing anything. Anyways, after that comes the big problem. I copy the DNS info to /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf, which goes ok, and then I go to enter the new environment. The Handbook says to do this: # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bash/bin # env-update (which should lead to) Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... # source /etc/profile I do the first step, and it goes fine, but then, when I type in env-update, it tells me no such command exists. So I type e and hit tab, and it lists the command that starts with e, and there is a command called env, but nothing called env-update. I'm assuming this is a pretty big problem...but on I go anyways. So, the next command it says to type in is: # emerge sync Whoops, no command emerge. So, that's where I've stopped each time. Any advice? -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
