On 12/21/05, Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > A couple days ago my main box died so I'm trying to restore it. I've only > got a old Gentoo Live-CD (2004.2) so I'm using that. I'm doing a Stage 1 > installation. > > When I get to the step of Bootstrapping the compiler I get the following > error: > > * Error: ' ' does not exist. Exiting > > In looking at scripts/bootstrap.sh > > I see that the error will be displayed if /etc/make.profile is not a valid > file. (at least that's what I think I read).
I am guessing here, because it has been a long time since I did a stage1 install. But I suspect that you need to update to the current profile before running bootstrap.sh ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 /etc/make.profile I am assuming that you have done the emerge --sync step already. Otherwise you can continue to try and bootstrap the 2004.2 profile, but YMMV. > > My 2 questions are: > > 1. Why am I getting that error? > 2. Why is /etc/make.profile not getting created? # I'm assuming it should > be getting created when I unpack portage. No, unpacking portage only makes /usr/portage (since there is a "-C /usr" option for the tar command in the handbook). If it is anywhere, it would have to be in the stage1 tarball if it exists. However, keep in mind that stage1 is really not supported now, and the current handbook only covers stage3 installs. There is no optimization to be had by going the stage1 route, only more difficulty. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
