emerge system -- ebuild did not compile successfully

[atreyu]

hi. i'm new here. i wanted to move to gentoo from redhat and there's a lot i don't know, so i have tried to follow the install instructions .. the USE flags section is a bit confusing to me, even after i read the FAQ. i put this line in the /etc/make.conf

CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -03 -pipe"

and that's it.

i just finished the bootstrap process what seemed like no problems. moved on to the steps

#export CONFIG_PROTECT=""
#emerge -p system
#emerge system

THE PROBLEM

it moves a bit then i see:
the following does no harm and on older systems might help
rm -f /var/catman/cat1/ps.1.gz /var/man/cat1/ps.1.gz
access denied .. cannot remove. permission denied.
make[1]: ***[install] Error 1
leaving dir ' /var/tmp/portage/procps-2.0.7-r6/work/procps-2.0.7/ps
make: ***[install_ps] Error 2

the ebuild did not compile sucessfully
Function src_install, Line 8, Exitcode 2
(no error message)

ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
Log File = "/tmp/sandbox-procps-2.0.7-r6-26179.log"
unlink: /var/catman/cat1/ps.1.gz
unlink: /var/man/cat1/ps.1.gz

THE MACHINE:
Intel P3 866MHz, 128SDRAM DIMM, nVidia 4x AGP

can anyone help? thanks in advance.
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[rac]

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