Installing Gentoo 2004.3: Stage 1 NPTL on a Stage 3 Tarball

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

glad to hear that you found your error. unfortunately, i still cannot get 2005.0 to work on my testbeds.

if we're going to continue to talk about it, i think that we should move all 2005.0 discussions out of this thread.

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

New Thread started for all 2005.0 related posts:

Please post all disucssion related to Stage 1/3 on 2005.0 to the new thread. Thanks!

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2204186.html

sunldn · n00b Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

hi all

i am learning to install Gentoo by following Stage 1 NPTL on Stage 3 Tarball. I follow the guide on the lastest PDF file step by step.
I run emerge --sync but I got RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM defined but file not exist from the server.

anyone please help to solve this error please.

Thanks all.

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Viha · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject:

First, excuse me if this has been mentioned, but I really don't have the time to read through the whole thread. I'm just now using this method to reinstall after major breakage and there was a little annoyance I registered, namely the stage3 was built with ipv6 support so it somehow defaulted to using ipv6 and thus every package download would first require a loooooooong timeout before wget tries the ipv4 version of the address. Maybe this is only a problem with mirrors that actually support ipv6 like the Finnish mirror that I use. Anyway, for such cases an additional tip would be to add -ipv6 to USE and rebuilding wget before trying to emerge anything else.

kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 3038

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

I just wanted to say that Bob P you fscking rock! I just finished the install on my new 700m and it went off with out a hitch. I love being able to use the -march=pentium-m in the new GCC, dont know if it really makes a differece but it makes me feel better

. I also used your first set of "agressive" CFLAGS, no probs. Excellent job!

--sonik
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Viha · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

amne · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 3038

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

i was just trying to be diplomatic by collaring both of you guys. :idea:

kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 3038

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

PDF UPDATE :arrow:

count0nz · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Auckland, NZ

Great Guide Bob keep it up

Another Happy Gentoo boxen useing 1 on 3
CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04 192 meg ram

266 But runs sweet

Next Gentoo 1 on 3 on a P3 733 with 512Meg Ram

Then

1 on 3 on a Duron Applebred 1600 oc'ed to 1800 2ghz
Also 512meg ram
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thebigslide · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject:

I made a script to do Bob's install unattended which can be easily built into a bootable CD to require no intervention by setting init=script and adding fdisk and mkfs commands to the head. It requires the stage tarball in ~. Hope someone finds this useful.

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

thebigslide,

Why does your script create make.conf and then later remove it and make a different copy?

thebigslide · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:

To modify it after upgrading the gcc-3.4.3-r1
I realize I could have modified it with sed instead, but it was easier to cut and paste

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

nice.

i prefer the cut and paste method too.

i've been using partially automated installs for quite some time, but i've been too burned out to write it up for presentation. your idea to share your script is very cool. i thought that kimchi_sg would have been the first guy to come up with a script -- its nice to see that you beat him to the punch!

btw -- i don't think that its absolutely necessary to use "--oneshot" when emerging the toolkit components. the stage 3 tarball already has GCC and the toolkit components in the world file. i guess that one could argue that the newer versions of gcc are slotted, so the --oneshot is necessary, but if you use hiel and minderaser's tcupdate script, toolkit components are filtered automatically, which renders the use of --oneshot somewhat moot.

what a nice script! :cool:

next time i update the guide, i think i'll insert a hyperlink to your post. :wink:

thebigslide · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks Bob! I added the --oneshot 'just in case'. I've gotten a lot out of this post and wanted to contribute something back.

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

thebigslide,
If you want it to be a truly unattended install, you could change it so that the filesystem type and device location are set as variables from the beginning (and not read from the console). That way the only actual "interaction" you'd have to do is setting up those partitions with fdisk.

And hell, if you wanted it to be REALLY automated you could use sfdisk along with a saved file containing your partition information.

thebigslide · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

I have been plugging away on a GTK for some time now to derive all the info needed to install, run debian's modconf to setup the kernel and automatically generate a kernel .config from the livecd's /proc/config.gz. I like the idea of using sfdisk to setup the partition table.