On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jani-Matti H�tinen wrote: > Krikket wrote: > > I'm going through my first install of Gentoo, and I've run across a > > problem... > [SNIP] > > Hmm. I no longer have lynx or links2 available, so I can't download it, > > but I figured I can live without the documentation, so I proceeded anyway. > > So, what did you do? Did you remove doc from your USE-flags and proceed with > emerge system, or did you just move on?
I just moved on... Thank you for pointing out that the USE-flags need to be edited. > If you did the latter one, you need to finish emerge system first, before > continuing to kernel installation. (Although basically this shouldn't matter) > You can finish emerge system by issuing: USE="-doc" emerge system, or you can > switch to another vt (with Alt+F2) which hasn't been chrooted to the new > environment (and thus still has lynx and links2) and use it to download the > documentation. Ah! I didn't know about that trick... > > I chose the "vanilla-sources" for the type of kernal, and run "emerge > > --usepkg vanilla-sources". > > Did this emerge finish without problems? What does emerge -vp vanilla-sources > tell you? > > > Then I do a "ls -s /usr/src/linux", and find nothing. A direct "ls" find > > the directory *empty*. I can create the link using "ln -s > > /usr/sec/linux-2.4.22 /usr/src/linux" as long as I leave off the preceding > > "rm /usr/sec/linug && ...". Obviously this doesn't do me any good, as > > there isn't a "linux-2.4.22" subdirectory. > > What's that "rm /usr/sec/linug && ..." thing? AFAIK you shouldn't need to > delete anything during the whole installation process. That's what the directions say to do if the you don't see /usr/src/linux when you do a ls -ls /usr/src/linux at the start of chapter 7 of the documentation. At any rate, by removing the doc flag, things are working Thank you *very* much for the help! Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
