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Well it has nothing to do with being wireless, it chokes when detecting the keyboard now (a PS/2 corded Logitech).

 

I've tried two different copies downloaded and burned by the way, so I don't think it's a disk issue.

 

Edit: I did some searching and found a guy that ran into the same problems.

 

 

 

I'll look in the options but how would I go about doing this?

 

 

sorry for the late response buddy. on the livecd prompt type

 

gentoo noacpi

 

there is an F option that shows you all the available boot options, disable some if noacpi doesn't work..

you can use multiple options also.

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Gentoo was one of the first distro to provide 64bit support in linux :)

 

Arch is nice but it's package tree is small compare to Gentoo's.

Right, but honestly know-one can compete with Gentoo's package tree. And yes Gentoo was a early 64bit adopter and it's up to the user how exclusively he wants his installation to be a true 64bit. Still I'm a bit worried for Gentoo's future, but I wish the best possible outcome!

 

Personally I don't mind a smaller package tree as long as the selection is of good quality and frequently updated. I won't have thousands of applications anyway running on my system!

 

 

Don't give up Technodanvan it's worth all the effort!

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Don't give up Technodanvan it's worth all the effort!

 

I'm getting there. :)

 

Edit: I'm actually stuck right now on the make.conf part, I got up to the point where I ran this....which appears to just be a help file of sorts and doesn't seem to be necesary to run.

 

# man make.conf

 

But then there's no prompt. Also, I'm not cetain which custom file to use for an AM2, just stick with Athlon Xp for dual cores?

 

Edit 2:

 

Seems I'm having trouble extracting files from the steps directly before this too...

 

Here's the errors:

 

tar: stage1-amd64-2006.1.tar.bz2.1: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

and..

tar: portage-latest.tar.bz2.1: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

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I forgot to add make.conf for the rest of the processors. I only added for Athlon-XP,Opteron,Core Dou,PentiumD, & Pentium4 I will add make.conf for more processors..

 

EDIT: oops i did actually add the configs but forgot to add the links :(

will edit guide with updates.

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Just updated with the actual errors I'm getting.

 

from the filename it seems you actually tried to re-download the stage1/portage tarballs twice. look at the /mnt/gentoo directory. and delete any duplicates that end with .1

also delete the stage/portage just in case they was not downloaded fully.

 


# cd /mnt/gentoo

# rm -v stage* portage*

 

no begin at the part were you download the stage/portage tarballs.

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Alright, I found the directory but there's a 'locked' symbol on the folder and it says I don't have permission to delete anything in it.

 

Is there a way to do it through the terminal?

 

Edit: nvm, thanks for the code. ;)

 

Is it necessary to run:

 


# man make.conf

 

?

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emerge --sync usually takes 15-30mins depending on updates to the tree. I will put a note on that one.

 

UPDATES:

 

I added make.conf files for the following processors..

 

AM2

pentium2

pentium3

pentium-m

celeron

xeon with no em64t support

xeon with em64t support

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Okay, I ran the 'Bootstrapper' which seemed to work fine, at least it didn't give me an error. Didn't take any time at all to run though, is it supposed to do that?

 

Anyways, I tried running the 'Clock-Skew' steps and neither worked.

 


* rc-update: '/etc/init.d/ntp-client' not found; aborting



then...



bash: ntpdate: command not found

 

Any thoughts?

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