Installing 1.2, Old Portage = Bootstrap Error

QuakerOatz · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 3

So I'm installing Gentoo using the older 1.2 install CD because it has the PCMCIA divers I need for my laptop NIC.

Now I'm at the scripts/bootstrap.sh step of the install and I'm getting the fairly common:
unscriptable object
error.

This seems to be related to the 1.9.9 Portage version which is included with the 1.2 install. How can I update portage at this stage? I've wget'd the latest stage1-ix86-1.2.tbz2 from http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.2/
which is dated 08-May-2002 16:39. This also has the old 1.9.9 Portage!

How can I update the Portage on the old 1.2 install? I don't think I can use the stage1-1.4-x86.tbz2 while booting from the 1.2 install CD, I assume the modules would be incompatible.

Help!

Thanks in advance

theclaus · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 64 Location: Boise, ID

Okay here is what I did to get my laptop working. I had a problem with the EEpro100 drivers locking up. Only way to fix it is to do a hybrid install.

1. Boot your 1.2 cd.
2. Load whatever you had to load
3. Do the fdisk and make your partitions
4. do the instructions up to the point where you would tar out the stage file.
5. wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/x86/stage1-x86-1.4_rc1-20020908-1208.tar.bz2
6. Now extract that image and go forward with the 1.4 instructions.

Works great on my Tecra 8200. No problems what so ever. With this you'll have your modules you need to load and the latest build.

TheClaus

rac · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 8:20 pm Post subject:

"emerge sync", then use the tarball in /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files.
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QuakerOatz · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 3

I wget'd the new 1.4 stage 1 and it worked.

Question: Why can't someone create a new 1.2 stage1 with a slightly newer portage version (that works)?

This seem to be a major problem for gentoo newbies, as the new installer doesn't have sufficient packages for pcmcia.

I'm switching over from Debian, which had it own problems; none of them included a non-functional version of apt-get being included on an install CD. In fact, the older mini deb cds <2.0 are my fav. Sorry for the lecture, but I feel a orphaned package installer is the closest thing to a showstopper for a new distro.

Thanks for the help.

SeaPig · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 70

rac, how would you do that? I have a system that has portage 1.9.10. I have version 2.0.44 in /usr/protage/sys-apps/protage/files/ so how do I use that tarball to upgrade the running version?

I tride usepkg but I got the same message about an unscriptable object

rac · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2002 11:17 pm Post subject:

theclaus · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 64 Location: Boise, ID

jthj · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 5:51 am Post subject:

For me it just sucked b/c I'm trying to convice my boss to use gentoo instaed of red hat. So at work I start to load up the gentoo box to demonstrate but it fails at the bootstrap. Luckily the boss wasn't there and of course I found this thread so my box is loading. However the disk I used was downloaded from the ibiblio mirror and burned today! What cd is not the old version that will actualy work without me grabing a different tarball?
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theclaus · n00b Joined: 08 Oct 2002 Posts: 64 Location: Boise, ID

Well in theory you should be using the 1.4rc cd. It is the most recent version. It is called the livecd. the only reason to do what I did was to stop gentoo from loading the network drivers for me and allow me to remove the driver and reload it with my parameters. If the 1.4 cd works for you then I would use it. Also you don't have to start at stage 1. You can start at stage 2 or 3. It all depends on how much you want a pure system that was all compiled with your hardware.

QuakerOatz · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 3

mmartin · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 45

@QuakerOatz: I don't think so at the moment I'm switching my System from a dual boot to a triple boot (WinXP/SuSE80/hopefully gentoo) and by now every problem I asked could be solved within at longest 2 days. So I think even someone switchin from Windows who is willing to read will give Gentoo a chance if he understand that Linux is hungry for documentation reading people

That's what my expirience is so far, right now I'm emerge sync with gentoo 1.4 because I had the same problem with Version 1.9.10 from gentoo 1.2 hope that works.
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