This will sound agresive but... RTFM! Looks like you did a wrong procedure in the Gentoo's install.
In http://gentoo.org you can find a very huge documentation about install,stages,GRP, etc... Well, good luck. On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:04, Matthew Tedder wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:15, Doug Gorley wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 00:38, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > > On Thursday 13 February 2003 00:17, Doug Gorley wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 23:25, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > > > > I have downloaded and attempted stage5 downloaded from ibiblio and > > > > > one other mirror--only to find that one of them doens't provide > > > > > /bin/sh, clear, and other commands.... and the other did include > > > > > those but lacked the "make" command. So I used the stage1, which was > > > > > included on the ISO download and it eventually lacked soem critical > > > > > parts.. > > > > > > > > I'd never heard of it before, but I thought I'd look on the off chance > > > > that there'd been some cataclysmic change in the way Gentoo is > > > > distributed. Where exactly did you find a stage5 file? > > > > > > These two sources: > > > > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x8 > > >6/i586/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 > > > > > > ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stages > > >/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 > > > > Those are stage3 tarballs, not stage5. > > Yes...yes... for some reason the number 5 keeps popping up when I mean to > type 3. > > > > > > > > WTF is going on? IS THERE A COMPLETE WORKING VERSION OF ANY OF THE > > > > > STAGES FOR INSTALLING GENTOO 1.4 RC2!?@$!$ > > > > > > > > I've used the athlon-xp stage3 file, as well as the x86 stage1 file. > > > > They both work just fine. > > > > > > > > > I have spend NUMEROUS hours over the last few weeks--including about > > > > > six hours today only to be disappointed. > > > > > > > > Did you follow the installation instructions on the Gentoo site? They > > > > really work quite well. And, if you get stuck on the installation > > > > process, you can post a question here. This list is amazingly good at > > > > helping people with specific problems. With vague, inflammatory > > > > complaints... not so good. > > > > > > This is pretty specific.. Bash not included, make, not included... > > > What's up? And why does the ISO not include anything but stage1 and no > > > GRP package as specified in the instructions? The instructions were > > > great and worked well for the RC1 version, except that Grub was not > > > working for ReiserFS and the kernel kept rebooting.. > > > > Specific, but the point is it's not correct. As shown in another reply > > to your last message, those files are clearly there. It's usually a > > good bet that when you find a system as widely used as Gentoo, and you > > Widely used, but these are early release candidates and they are split up into > a variety of different branches.. How well tested, therefore, is each > particular combination? Even though Gentoo is widely used... Linux is > widely used with mass peer review yet we find constant new bugs and broken > apps being shipped out with various distrobutions. The development-pace is > the reason. Yes, it gets fixed fast--but new problems constantly arise > because the software is constantly added onto. > > > *think* you've a problem like "bash not included", think again -- %99.99 > > of the time, it's you, not the software. > > After extracting these tar balls, it is not located in ANY of the /bin or > /sbin directories anywhere in the system. If they are in there, then why do > they not extract with everything else? Obviously they are definitely not > there. What's odd is the fact that different things were missing from each > package downloaded from each different source of the same named tar ball. > > > > > > > > And why on earth is this being called a Release Candidate (or does > > > > > RC2 mean something else?). > > > > > > > > This is indeed Release Candidate 2. That means it's the second > > > > candidate to be the final release of Gentoo 1.4. > > > > > > With problems as brazen as this not having been worked out--it should be > > > considered alpha. Perhaps these are just QC issues and somewhere someone > > > actually does have properly build stage1, 2, and 3 packages for i586. > > > > As I said, it's not the software. bash is there. make is there. They > > work. > > No... it really truelly isn't. This is not a difficult thing to determine.. > It's flat not there. I've been working with UNIX systems as a programmer and > part-time administrator for the last seven years. Somehow these particular > packages from these particular mirrors are not complete. It looks to me as > errors on the part of the person putting together the tar balls...and it got > copied to the mirrors prematurely at a couple of different stages. > > I downloaded another ISO over last night hoping that this mirror's version of > i586 would include all of the stages and the GRP stuff. I can only cross my > fingers. > > > > > > > > Please don't make switch to Lycoris for the product we're working on > > > > > here.. > > > > > > > > > > Is there some ISO image that already has more than the stage1--at > > > > > least the GRP stuff mentioned in the installation instructions? I > > > > > was surprised to find stage packages with DIFFERENT contents in the > > > > > tbz2 files with the SAME names. > > > > > > > > That would be all the ISOs, I think. Really, what ISO did you > > > > download? Grab the one for your architecture, it should have a stage1, > > > > stage2 and stage3 tarball on the CD. Or grab any CD, and wget the > > > > tarball at install time. Very simple. > > > > > > I grabbed it twice... My architecture is the VIA Eden ESP, so I grabbed > > > it for i586. I first considered raw x86 earlier but there was nothing > > > but stage1 available. > > > > > > The ISO only contains a stage1 package, so I downloaded the stage3. > > > > > > > > This seems VERY unorganized.. > > > > > > > > I found Gentoo to be exceptionally well organized - the documentation > > > > was easy to find, the system tools (portage, rc scripts, etc.) all work > > > > very well, and the mailing list does a great job of filling in the > > > > blanks. Exactly what more is it you're looking for? > > > > > > Originally, I was impressed by the documentation and portage--but I have > > > yet to see a working installation. I cannot even compile the kernel > > > without these basic tools missing the packages.. > > > > Well, hopefully you can get it worked out, and you'll probably learn > > something in the process! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
