Ok. I need help from some of the gurus who frequent bit. I have tried asking this question on the Gentoo forums but haven't gotten much of a response. Maybe because it has only been an hour and a half since I posted there, but I thought I might as well ask here too. I am following the handbook pretty much to the letter exept for changes necessary for my hardware. My problem comes right after unpacking the stage 1 tarball. I try to nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf but what am I supposed to see? All I get is a blank page in the text editor. I have tried to open and modify make.conf.example but that file does not seem to exist. Do I have a b0rked install disk or what? I may just reboot and start over. any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the response guys. I figgured out that it was just me overlooking a step. I had forgoten to cd /mnt/gentoo before unpacking the tarball. I must have done something wrongTherefore none of the folders I needed existed where they should have been. I got past that and re-installed only to screw up again. This time I got as far as chrooting and trying to env-update. At this point I get the error: Invalid token (not"=") N(with a ~ above it) ParseError: Invalid token (not '='): /etc/make.conf Line 7 I take it that I have something wrong with my make.conf file then. I need to get that far in the install again and I will post my make.conf to see if anybody knows what I did wrong. Thanks
Well, in my excitement I went ahead and edited my make.config by myself. it had some weird garbage in the line about GENTOO_MIRRORS so I just deleted everything up till there. It seemed to have worked. Now I am bootstrapping but it is hung up on trying to connect to a server. It got "host not found" or "Connection refused" on 3 different servers and now it is retrying the fourth server for the fourth time. Is there anything I can do but wait?
Sure thing. this isn't going to be exact but it should have all of the important stuff. CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" AUTOCLEAN="yes" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" USE="-gtk -gnome qt kde dvd alsa cdr" GENTOO_MIRRORS="a bunch of URLs" That should be it. I think I had more USE tags but I didnt' feel like typing them all out. I did successfully chroot. env-update had a bit of a hic-up but as I said, I edited out the garbage that was in front of GENTOO_MIRRORS. Right now I am bootstraping and have a screen full of lines of code it seems. So maybe all is going well. Thanks again for the helping hand.
Garbage? Sounds a bit weird! I was going to suggest starting again from the beginning (after all, it wouldn't have taken you very long to get back to where you were) but if it seems to be working then good luck to you Sam
Grrr...all this time and now it gives me another error. I was running scripts/bootstrap.sh when it came to download glibc-manpages it said Error 404: Not Found and then dumped me back to the # prompt. What should I do? Start bootstrap.sh over again? is the glibc-manpages important enough that I should not go ahead and emerge system?
well, the glibc-manpages are just the "manual" for glibc. I don't think you'll need them in order for your system to work, but it might well be that the system hasn't finished bootstrapping (presumably it halts on errors.) I'm afraid I have never actually done a stage 1 install so I won't be much help- the gentoo forums are probably your best bet Cheers Sam
Cheers Sam, I went ahead and started the emerge system. Hopefully it will go well. I can always start over again. Maybe do the xp stage2 this time. thanks for listening to me vent anyway.
