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ssaady
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 Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: Installation woes - timezone |
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I am attemptiong my first Gentoo installation, Stage 1. The installation instructions seem very easy. I am following the installation instructions verbatim as best I can tell, w/ the exception of using /dev/hde rather than hda. There are no signs of error or anomaly until I get stymied at step 7a, when I am told to set the timezone. I do not have a /usr/share/zoneinfo dir. That I could live with, but then I get to "emerge gentoo-sources". I am changing CHOST to "i686-pc-linux-gnu" since I am on a Pentium III, and adding "MAKEOPTS="-j2"" to make.conf, but I doubt those are ralted to my problem.
When on step 6a I do the "env-update" after "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash", instead of getting the "* Caching service dependencies..." message the documentation says I will get, I get ">>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache", which seems reasonable.... to me at least.
Ultimately, I die at "emerge gentoo-sources". It goes through a few kernels, then it dies at some gettext-tools error.
Ideas? Suggestions??? |
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cyrillic
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/usr/share/zoneinfo will be created when you compile sys-libs/glibc (this happens during bootstrap).
It seems like you have skipped a few important steps for a stage1 installation. It should go something like this :
Setup and mount partitions
Setup networking
Unpack stage tarball
Chroot
Emerge --sync
Setup /etc/make.conf
Bootstrap
Setup timezone
Emerge system
Emerge kernel sources and compile kernel
Emerge a few other things
Setup the bootloader
Exit chroot environment
Unmount partitions and reboot |
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ssaady
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cyrillic
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| ssaady wrote: | | I did all those things, w/ the exception of "Emerge --sync ", I missed that.... Is that going to help the zoneinfo gettext problem? |
Once you have finished the bootstrap step, you should have a zoneinfo directory with stuff in it. Gettext should also be taken care of during bootstrap.
Once you get to the point of emerging the kernel sources, emerge should not need to pull-in any other dependencies (unless one of the previous steps was not completed). |
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