1. After booting no mesage as to what was found or loaded. In my case thsi is just my nic. It is found now and dhcpcd is run automaticly, its a tulip, The quick way to tell would to change instrucs to run "ifconfig -a" and see eth0 is up. Then try insmod whatever. 2. If you have dhcpc then /etc/resolv.conf is writen for you and you can just copy it to /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf after tar ... . 3. Personel gripe;) on partion sizes for desktop users and maybe smaller drives. /Boot 8-12 megs. Thats enough for 5 to 7 kernels even using "make dep clean install" It copys sysmap cnfig and vmlinuz to /boot for you. Swap size are also way to large for normal users. Why not 2xram for under 256megs and 256 for 256 and 0 512 and above. End gripe. 4. After runing tar xvjpf stage1-1.4-rc3bz2 there was no proc dir created. I couldnt mount "mount -o bind /proc proc" ( I switch /mnt/gentoo once mounted to cut down on the typing).After I made "mkdir proc" mount proc worked. 5. If you follow the doc's and export CONFIG_PROTECT="-*". then why bother to edit make.conf because the first package installed is portage and it over writes make.conf. The second "baselayout might also. Suggest changing export CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc/make.conf" that protects make.conf. 6. For the bootstrap.sh why not ./usr/portage/scrpts/bootstarp.sh instead of "cd /usr/portage" ; ./scripts/bootstrap.sh. 7. instep 11 it says boootstrap "will build binutils, gcc, gettext, and glibc, rebuilding binutils, gcc, and gettext after glibc". The first thing it builds or should I say rebuilds is portage-2.0.47-r7. Most of these pre aint to install.txt on the 1.4_rc3 cd. hiel
You cant change to a vc, ex: alt + f2 with loging in and you cant log in with out the encrpted password. So instructions given when you first boot should be changed to note this. To use vc2 and such you must first "passwd root" so that if you're going to "less install.txt" on another terminal you can log in. hiel
Some points are fixed in 1.4_rc4, but others are not (or not that I'll recall). More especially, point 5 needs to be checked. I'll ignore the rest of the points: I don't have problems with 1, 2 is resolved with the current documentation layout, 3 is too personal (our suggestion is just a suggestion), 4 is not valid with 1.4_rc4, 6 is more a matter of taste (easier to remember :), 7 is not valid as Portage isn't built, just installed (Portage exists out of scripts), and Portage won't always be installed, only if you have issued "emerge sync" and a new portage version is available.
I think CONFIG_PROTECT="-* /etc/make.conf" should suffice, but I am not certain. I'll ask on the mailinglist; if positive, I'll change it in the docs.
Proposed change is on http://cvs.gentoo.org/~swift/gentoo-x86-install.html. If accepted by reviewing committee, I'll add it to the docs.
While you're working on that doc, could you please change miscellany in the title of section 16 to miscellaneous?
np
Committed into CVS.
