RE: [tlug] gentoo install

[patrick.niessen@example.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Morgan [mailto:jack@example.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:44 PM
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: [tlug] gentoo install
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:45:47PM -0800, j. roughan wrote:
> > 
> > I have attempted a `stage 3 ` ..`live cd` install,
> > several times but I am getting errors after the
> > blackdown jdk and before perl completes its install.
>  
> I'm not sure why your having trouble with blackdown-jdk or 
> perl. A stage3 is a fully functional system. Try following 
> the install instructions without upgrading. I mean install 
> grub/lilo, build your kernel, edit files in /etc, install 
> cron, logger, etc Once you've rebooted and are able to log 
> into a working Gentoo system, then upgrade. 
> 
> You have many potential ways to fix your broken install but 
> without more detail we can't do much. For example, what 
> errors are you getting? Which stage3 did you use? Did you 
> modify /etc/make.conf? Which profile are you using? 
> 
> One last suggestion is to check the Gentoo forums...
> 
http://forums.gentoo.org/

Sometime gentoo packages are buggy.  I tried to upgrade kde last week, and
the compile always failed in qt3.3. emerge syncing it again after a few days
helped to fix it, so the package was simply broken.

Patrick