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BlauwVoet
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 Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: no zoneinfo in stage1-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2 |
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Hello!
I have a tiny problem...
I'm trying to install gentoo (for Athlon64) from an existing linux (ubuntu for those who care). I downloaded stage1-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2 and portage-20050328.tar.bz2 and unpacked them in a free partition (mounted as /gentoo). I chrooted into this. When I wanted to set the timezone I noticed the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo did not exist. I doublechecked this in the original tarball; it 's not in it.
Is this normal?
I copied the zoneinfo directory from my ubuntu, and this solves my problem. This is however a "dirty" solution, and I keep wondering why it wasn't in the tarball... |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: no zoneinfo in stage1-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2 |
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| BlauwVoet wrote: | When I wanted to set the timezone I noticed the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo did not exist. I doublechecked this in the original tarball; it 's not in it.
Is this normal? |
YES!
zoneinfo is a part of the glibc package, and since you do not have glibc emerged yet (as you're using stage 1, which has nothing emerged yet except a minimalist compiling toolchain), you will not get any zoneinfo directory.
| BlauwVoet wrote: | | I copied the zoneinfo directory from my ubuntu, and this solves my problem. This is however a "dirty" solution, |
This is not the correct way to do things.
If you are very particular about timezone, set the system clock to the time in GMT first, by passing the -u option to date:
Then set the timezone symlink only after you have done emerge -e system.
If you have not bootstrapped yet, you can safely delete the zoneinfo directory. |
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BlauwVoet
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: no zoneinfo in stage1-amd64-2005.0.tar.bz2 |
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thanks 
In the old days the installation handbook was broader, included ways to install from other distro's, and handled stages 1-3. Maybe this scared off new users, I agree. But for those (like me) in between the noobs and the die hards, it's a pitty all of this has vanished from the handbook. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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The instructions are still there! They have not disappeared.
But it's now all consolidated into the Alternative Installation HOWTO. |
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BlauwVoet
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | The instructions are still there! They have not disappeared.
But it's now all consolidated into the Alternative Installation HOWTO. |
that is only the alternative installation "media" (existing distro, knoppix...)
the instructions how to get from stage 1 to stage 3 have disappeared... |
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| BlauwVoet wrote: | | the instructions how to get from stage 1 to stage 3 have disappeared... |
No they haven't - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_chap2. 
Beware of using the version-specific handbooks though - they're only meant to be used for networkless installations, and so they only detail stage 3 installations.
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