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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem
Date: Tue Jan 30 04:18:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A769C3D.CCD58ED1@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.30.0101292356020.18609-100000@mars.its.yale.edu

Dave Bresson wrote:

> Ok, thanks to the new guide that's up, i now know the proper options for
> my /boot partition.  However, there seems to be some sort of problem going
> on with the directions in the guide, specifically with the configuring the
> settings section.  Right after it says to do a 'chroot /mnt/gentoo' you're
> to perform the 'env-update' command.  When running 'env-update' i get a
> "Error: /mnt/gentoo does not exist!" or some such error.  This of course makes
> sense, since that dir is now the root directory, however something tells
> me that this *isn't* the way the command is supposed to work (i think).
> Is it supposed to do this?  And of course, exiting out of the chroot'ed
> shell to run 'env-update' doesn't work b/c then it can't even find the
> command.  I've also looked at the python code for env-update in
> /usr/sbin/env-update, however i haven't been able to come up with a
> solution to this problem.  Any ideas?

Try in chrooted environment

unset ROOT
env-update

That should work.

achim~

>
>
> thanks,
>
> dave
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-30 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-29 22:03 [gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem Dave Bresson
2001-01-30  4:18 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
2001-01-30 11:19 ` drobbins
2001-01-30 19:33   ` [gentoo-dev] hde and hdg (udma card) John McCaskey
2001-01-30 19:42     ` Achim Gottinger
2001-01-30 21:14       ` John McCaskey
2001-01-31  7:56     ` Thomas T. Veldhouse

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