On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:11:23PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
>
>Nice to meet you :)

Thanks!

>
>> >Did you extract the tarball using the "p" option? -->

Well this time I did, and still multilog is whining. It's gonna irritate me
untill I fix it, I rebooted into my running system as I need to copy my
modules for my kernel (LVM and GFS modules needed to mount my former root
partition so I can get to the iso of gentoo to mount it with the loop device
:-)

I love this stuff.


>> Doh! Ooops. 
>
>daemontools is very picky about directory permissions, so that's why your syslog
>was fried.  It's easy to forget the "p" option since it's normally not used when
>extracting your typical source tarball.

Well, I did use the p option this time so I'm assuming something happend
before I untarred it.

>Unfortunately, I don't think you have "vi" at this point.  Try grabbing the
>portage tree from your non-chrooted system, and then copy it to /usr/portage
>under your chrooted system.  Then, add the CFLAGS that you want to
>/etc/make.conf and then one quick hack -- copy wget from your real system to
>/usr/bin on your Gentoo Linux system.  We forgot to add that to build.tbz2.
>Then, create the /etc/resolv.conf and hosts files, and wget should then be
>able to download from the chrooted environment.  At this point, Portage is
>ready for use.

I have vim actually. I do need to get the kernel recompiled with reiserfs


>
>You're ready to merge gcc, binutils, flex and all that good stuff (look for
>Achim's previous email for what needs to be remerged).  Use the emerge program:
>
># emerge foo-1.0.ebuild
>
>To see what *would* be merged (without actually merging), use the --pretend option:

can I take all this stuff off the iso I downloaded?


>
># emerge --pretend foo-1.0.ebuild
>
>After merging the essentials (gcc, binutils, flex), make sure you merge the new
>1.5 version of Portage in sys-apps.
>
>Then, to install all essential packages on your system, type:
>
># emerge system
>
>This will cause everything in /usr/portage/sys-* to be merged automatically -- and
>in the proper order.  Nearly everything (if not everything) should compile cleanly,
>though you may have a few problems since Achim is in the middle of upgrading to a
>new readline on CVS.  Let us know your progress and we'll try to resolve any problems
>you have.
>
>After "emerge system" completes successfully, you should have a complete base Gentoo
>Linux system.


This is all great stuff to add to the installation guide!

>
>> Well, I rather like the fact that it's mostly hands-on stuff, and if I can get
>> the authentication thing straight I can hack the rest of it.
>> 
>> Ports man, I love it. Finally a distro with ports.
>
>you should be able to simply rename /etc/pam.d/userpadd to useradd, and things should
>work.
>
>Best Regards,
>
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>Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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