[wplug] Gentoo install help needed

[Vanco, Donald]

John Strange wrote:
> Hmm,
> 
> What stage install are you doing?
stage1  - of course :)


> You might want to checkout the stage1 install if you are failing on
> stage3 simply cause something might have been compiled incorrectly
> for your OS. 

> Also check your USE settings, make sure they are USE="-* bootstrap
> build" 
	That's done as a set before the start of bootstrap - so yea, it's in
there...
	bootstrap has been chugging for a good 15 minutes and appears to be
OK.... (touch wood)  Getting some awesome throughput numbers - >160KB/s

Don

> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:01, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>> John Strange wrote:
>>> Hmm..
>>> 
>>> Mirrorselect and prozilla?  I don't remember those being preinstall
>>> requirements?  If you are trying to add a few things to the system
>>> get the base install done first, and then start adding packages,
>>> your system is a pretty odd state at first while you are installing
>>> stuff. 
>> 
>> According to the comments in make.conf, the only way to pull from
>> mirrors other than the default is by installing mirrorselect via
>> emerge prior to installing (unless I'm interpreting this wrong).  So
>> while "Prozilla" isn't a requirement (but "turbo mode" install
>> sounds like a good idea to me) the system still fails on the emerge
>> for mirrorselect - and even if that weren't the case, if there an
>> issue with cpp I would expect the install to fail in a similar
>> manner if cpp is somehow broken. 
>> 
>> Don
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 09:37, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>>>> I'm installing gentoo on my laptop and am getting errors when
>>>> trying to emerge some pre-install stuff (prozilla and
>>>> mirrororselect). It's telling me that cpp is "failing sanity
>>>> check". I've not done much in make.conf other than set arch to
>>>> pentium3 and add a few gentoo mirrors.  If you have pointers on
>>>> make.conf edits (like for any of the USE stuff) I'd love to hear
>>>> them.  System is a Dell P4 laptop. 
>>>> 
>>>> Don
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