Stroller writes: > I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. > > This has never failed me.
For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: unset path. Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and SystemRescueCD defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the chroot. This messed things up a lot. Apart from that, I really like SystemRescueCD. Wonko