Hi Jason,

Thanks for your advise.  

Before taking another round I expect to clarify following point;

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:05, Jason Stubbs wrote:
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> > cdimage /# emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
> > !!! No profile directory; syetem mode unavailiable
> 
> This sounds like you either missed the following from Step 8:
> 
> # tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

GRP package/snapshot steps 
Important:  The following instructions are for GRP users only
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Code listing 8.3: Using Portage snapshot

Replace yyyymmdd with the datestamp in the filename.
# tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
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According to the Installation instruction, that is for GRP but I am a
single user.  Kindly advise.

> or something went wrong with the stage3 tarball extraction and your missing a 
> symlink at /etc/make.profile. After chroot'ing, check with "ls -l 
> /etc/make.profile" and if it's missing (or different) fix it with:
> 
> # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4 /etc/make.profile

Noted with thanks

B.R.
Stephen


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