Observed duting amd64 install, but this is the common part of the install. Using the instruction "cp /mnt/cdrom/packages/All/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/All" copy only the packages and not the tree. But if you do so, later attempt to use binary package might failed : example : "emerge -K xfree" failed to emerge binary Correct instruction should be : "cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages" Solution was given by Avenj last June in Forums, but never made it to the docs. ----COPY of Forums ----- Turns out it's the worst kind of bug - a documentation bug. Instead of: cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/ it should have been: cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages Fixed install doc is in CVS and wil hit the website soon. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from LiveCD 2004.0 (for AMD64) 2. Use of 2nd CD of GRP 3. After clean install and reboot, follow instructions to copy packages
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43724 ***
