installing... but no emerge command?

[confuzzled]

im new to gentoo, and have only been using linux for about a year, previously my linux use was on and off. I have found that Mandrake and RedHat are getting too microsofty, and Debian is too out of date, even their unstable releases. Anyways,thats why i chose Gentoo.

i have been trying to install gentoo for about 2 days, using stage3 tarball for pentium 4 (i have a 3.06ghz with hyperthreading processor), on the 2 cd set. I have followed the gentoo install guide to the T... and now... i have seemed to have doen something wrong. When i get to step 16 (instaling the kernel) and type emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, i get an error, bash telling me that the emerge command cannot be found.

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[Terminal Insanity]

I had a similar problem
What i did was type
exit
cd /mnt/gentoo
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

and it seemed to be fine again... Theres probably a better way to do it, but im too nub to know

[confuzzled]

in the install manual.... being in chroot is only for those using grp.. right?

[confuzzled]

well for some reason i didnt catch this before, but ... i have a Hyper threading enabled proc... therefore i should be using smp kernel.. right? ......


when i choose that option, at the graphical part with the "status" bar, the bar doenst move and nothing ever happens. . . any advice now?

[cyrillic]

[confuzzled]

thanks for clearing that up ( i feel like an idiot now though, cause i had just read something wrong EVERY time i read the installation guide... i made myself look *stoopit*)