On Monday 25 August 2003 12:20, Chad Geidel wrote: > I am trying to install Gentoo on an Athlon XP (Abit AT7 motherboard - not > on the RAID controller) and I have been running into a few problems. I am > using the Athlon XP 1.4 LiveCD. First, I tried to do the stage 1 install. > I used the default options for the make.conf and it wasn't able to finish > the bootstrap process (I don't have the error messages right now) so I went > ahead and tried to start from stage 2. I got farther, but when I did an > "emerge system" I get an error while it is building sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r7. > I tried to do a stage 3 install, but got a bunch of errors which seemed to > be CD Access errors (badly burned CD?). I did get a correct MD5 sum on the > ISO before I burned it. I assume that this isn't a problem here though - I > thought the "emerge sync" updated the sources so I wouldn't have to worry > about that... > > Do I need to set any flags differently in the make.conf? Could it be that > I made a bad disk and have a corrupted file or does it not matter because > of the "emerge sync"? Should I just try the stage 1 install again? > Suggestions?
If it's your first time, then you should probably start from Stage3 as starting from Stage1 may seem to be a waste of time in the end. The defaults in /etc/make.conf are fine and should not cause any problems. Did you try any of the stages twice? i.e. can you confirm that the errors are reproducible? If the same error doesn't happen twice then it's more than likely due to faulty hardware. Make sure you aren't overclocking, set BIOS to "safe" defaults and try again. If the same error happens twice, then please give more information about the error(s) - eg, what the syntax errors and line numbers actually are in db_dump185.c. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
