Hi Kent, Welcome to Gentoo, a truly marvelous distro!
> Dear gentoo users, > > Is it possible to install from the live cd a stage3 > tar ball then config the sytem to reboot? Without the > emerges? The answer to this question is of course yes ;-)! There are several solutions to your dilemma. > I am asking because I got only one pcmcia slot which > can only attach a cd or a ethernet. The normal > installation require both the bootable cd and the > ethernet to work. Also, I have trouble getting the > emerge work, after chroot, python fail with error that > libpthread is missing. The reason you can't get emerge to work once you boot is that you have no internet connection... since you are booting from the CD and hence don't have your PCMCIA NIC card in the slot. During the install you need to emerge a couple of things such as kernel sources, system logger and a cron daemon.. these sources do not exist on the install CD and hence emerge goes looking on the net to download the source.. which is a problem since you don't have an internet connection. Here a couple of suggestions: 1) Download the required sources to your windows partition or a linux formatted partition when you have your machine running and the NIC card in the slot. Then boot the cd, mount the partition in which you downloaded the source files and copy them over to /usr/portage/distfiles then continue on with the install from there. 2) When you boot the Live CD you will come to the baby blue splash screen.. instead of just hitting enter hit F2 to see the options. One of hte options is to boot the CD so that you can unmount it after the ramdisk install.. an option I believe called nocache... so if this the name of the option you would type: gentoo nocache at the boot prompt to boot with this option. Now you can copy over the stage 3 tarball to one of your partitions and unmount the CD. Once you do this you should be able remove you pcmcia CD and plug in you pcmcia NIC.. and set up networking. Well this is the best I can do for now. If you need more assistance, fire another e-mail to the list and I'll try to help. Cheers, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
