Randy Barlow wrote: > Howdy, > > I've got a fun little project to install portage on RHEL 4. > Unfortunately, the powers that be won't allow me to put Gentoo, so I > figured I'd do the best I can and put portage :) >
If there are powers that won't allow you to install Gentoo I think it is better to discontinue your fun little project because installing portage and using it will turn your system into Gentoo. > So I pulled the tar ball, and put the binaries where they go and such. > I set my profile up, and my make.conf. Now I try to emerge -e system, > and everything goes well until it gets to gcc. At this stage, I get > hundreds of errors along the lines of einfo, eend, and ebegin being > commands that are "not found". > So it may be too late for you to stop. Then I would recommend you to read about bootstrapping [1], gentoo stage1 installation [2] and "Linux from scratch" [3]. Here are some links where you could start: 1) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#stage12 2) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_-_The_Gentoo_Developers_Method_with_NPTL_and_2.6_from_Stage1 3) http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ But I have to warn you again: If there are reasons that you shouldn't install Gentoo you better not. Following the steps in [1] or [2] will lead you to finally assimilating the previous system and turning it into Gentoo. -- Best regards, Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
