for the GENTOO crowd

[Randall Randall]

DAVID KUCHARSKI wrote:
> 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.  

Um, make.profile is a directory, so nano won't show anything
in it if you try to edit it as a file (but it doesn't complain,
either, unfortunately).  Is there anything in the make.profile
directory?

I believe that make.profile should be included in the tarball.

> any help/input from those that have been there would
> be appreciated! 

I haven't had this particular problem. :)  Have you tried jumping
directly into a stage 3 tarball?  I did that most recently without
problems.

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