Getting Illegal Instruction when using nano text editor

novakm · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

Hi everyone,

I am installing Gentoo Linux for the first time. Everything working according to the instructions that came with it. Though when I get to the step where the nano text editor has to be used I get the Illegal instruction error.

Example: nano -w /etc/make.conf

I am able to get the help list when I type nano -h without any error. What can I do to fix this problem.

Thanks for any help.

-mike

Earthwings · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject:

what live-cd and what cpu ('cat /proc/cpuinfo') are you using? very possible you've got a wrong combination.

novakm · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

That might be it. I am using the athlon-xp live cd. You see I have a athlon-xp computer and a athlon-tbird computer. I thought that I would test the Gentoo install on the old computer. That seemed to be fine since it booted.

Anyway I will download the athlon version and try again.

Thanks

-mike

Pete_Keller · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:12 am Post subject:

novakm,

the xp live cd will NOT work on the tbird computer.

Pete
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