for the GENTOO crowd

[Brian Densmore]

I had the same problem. It comes from doing something wrong. Still don't
know what I did wrong.
Basically it is a fault of not getting everything into the chroot
directory. What I did, fuzzy, was open a second terminal and copied the
files I needed from the boot disk into the chroot directory. You are
probably missing a bunch of executables and the make.config file and
possibly others. It's been a while, since I did it. You need to read the
instructions very carefully, and follow them very closely. There is very
little room for mistakes. I would print off the instructions from the
web site, plus any links. Also the user forum is excellent.

HTH,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVID KUCHARSKI [mailto:dave at iemco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:38 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: for the GENTOO crowd
> 
> 
> ok i thought I'd TRY the install.
> 
> PII 64mb Ram 2 gig HD
> 
> I burned the stage 1 install disk and booted from it. 
> After working through the set up for networking and
> the pre install to prep the HD and stuff, I get to the
> part where the instructions tell me I'm ready to
> emerge rsync and get an error that there is no
> make.profile try emerge sync to fix the problem.  When
> I try that I get the same message.  If I go to the
> directory where make.profile lives, it's there, but
> blank.  Am I missing something that isn't in the
> install.text that would be rather important? When I
> try to use the things like more and less that were
> there BEFORE I chroot-ed, they are no longer there and
> there is no way I've been able to back up in the
> install process so, I've restarted three times trying
> things a bit differently each time and carefully
> following EACH step in the install with no luck in a
> different outcome.  Always a blank make.profile.  
> 
> It seems that there should be at least a step to
> generate the make.profile that I missed.
> like a #make [something here] target or something
> followed by make install and then the rsync.  What am
> I missing?
> 
> any help/input from those that have been there would
> be appreciated! Thanks
> 
> 
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