installing gentoo 2006.1

misterbob05 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 90

it gets to the part where it says emerge kernel sources and it wont go any frather

it wont emerge anything its like it cant find the files on any of the servers

let me know what youll need to know ill be greatfull if this gets fixed

btw its trying to emerge sys-apps/pcutilis-2.2.0.r1

and this is from the live cd

intmain · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:52 am Post subject:

Could you post the output of emerge?

Have you set up your network correctly and copied your /etc/resolv.conf to the chroot environment? If networking does not work the output of ifconfig and cat < /etc/resolv.conf also will be helpful.

misterbob05 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 90

im doing all of this through the live cd and the automatic install. Im not that graet at command line but i can get online and everything even search in firefox.

the only thing i can see is that its trying a bunch of different servers and cant find the files that its looking for on those servers then eventually times out

i have it running right now and it stopped at the same part if i can copy and past the output from all i will

ok here is the info you requested

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:CA:99:5F:0E
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:caff:fe99:5f0e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:875218 (854.7 Kb) TX bytes:110920 (108.3 Kb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x6000

it wont let me copy the info out of the install window but it cant find the files on the sites it tries and the second commnad didnt work at all said there was no such file

intmain · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject:

OK, if you can get online with firefox there shouldn't be a problem with networking.

As I see, the installer wants to install sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.0-r1 but this packages does not exist anymore, so obviously your portage tree is out of date. I am not familiar with the gentoo installer as I always installed Gentoo by command line, but somewhere in the installation procedure there must be an option for updating the portage tree or running emerge --sync. Make sure that this option is enabled, because the 2006.1 release is about 8 months old and for most packages there are new versions available.

misterbob05 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 90

there is an option about how to obtain a portage tree but it wont let me select anything thing. everything is grayed out and snapshot is selected but there is also websync which is the one i think i need

if i could i would like to try the command line install but have no clue how to do that

can anyone point me to a step by step process???

01mf02 · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

The installation manual actually is a step-by-step manual.

If you meant you wanted to update just the Portage tree from the graphical installation, that's done by simply executing "emerge --sync". There's not more involved.

misterbob05 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2007 Posts: 90

well the emerge --sync didnt work with the live cd install. and from what i read youll frown on the gui install but its the easiest way for what i want

i had this system working but something went wrong so i just decided to re install it all together and thats when i got into this mess

but i did get it to work by selecting a site to downlad the file and then i was able to select how i got the portage tree and all was fine and dandy

so i guess you can say problem solved or worked around