Installing gentoo 2004.3 problem getting grub or lilo

NetKege

I am installing Gentoo 2004.3 on my server. I booted with the minimal live cd and downloaded the stage 3 tarball. Al works fine until now, installation of grub. When i want to emerge grub (grub-0.94-r1) i get al http 404 errors. The file its looking for (grub-0.94-splash.patch.bz2) isn;t propably anymore on the servers. The same goes for lilo which i tried after this. How to fix this?

(I'm using gentoo 2004.3 because the 2005.x releases don;t even boot the install cd. The server has a VIA C3 cpu, which i blame for the reboot after a few seconds when i boot from the 2005.x cd's. Any sollutions for this problem is even more welcome!)
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nixnut · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject:

Try an emerge sync first if you have a working internet connection.
btw if you need an x86 cd/stagefile. The c3 is an i586 processor as it does not fully support the i686 instruction set. That's probably why your 2005.x cd's didn't work.
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NetKege · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject:

Tried the emerge sync. It ended with the following error:

>>> Updating Portage cache... \!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0)

Tried emerge grub after that, gave the following error:

!!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
!!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

/etc/make.profile does not exist (i'm still doing the installation). I think my portage tree is now broken(?)

I know the VIA C3 is not completely I686 compatible, but the 2005.x cd's are not only for 686 and up, are they? (i downloaded teh x86 version)
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cyrillic · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 2:22 am Post subject:

I think the 2005.1 release was compiled for i686 by mistake ... and not many people noticed.

NetKege · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject:

only the 2005.1 release or the 2005.0 release also? They give the same result when trying to boot.
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