On 08/20/2010 11:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
100820 Philip Webb wrote:
The next step seems to be to unpack the whole Stage 3 tarball
in the netbook's  /  dir&  see what happens.  After that, a full reinstall.

Further examination of what's in Stage 3
+ review of my detailed notes from installation last year suggest
that the correct attempt wb to unpack the tarball somewhere temporary,
then copy  /bin /lib /sbin /usr /var  into the existing set-up;
also to unpack the latest Portage snapshot into  /usr/portage ;
after that, copy carefully selected parts of  /etc .
After all, I do have a working kernel + system configuration,
which is partly what needs to be created during a basic install.

Of course, if there's a simpler method anyone can suggest, I wb thankful.
Can anyone explain why it's choking on the ELF header ?


You might be able to grab the 'acl' and 'attr' packages from here:

  http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/

Hopefully, replacing them will fix your coreutils. If not, try replacing coreutils too.

Note that this probably has the potential to make things worse, and I obviously can't test it.

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