http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_chap2 # nano -w /etc/locale.gen http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2 "How do I Install Gentoo Using a Stage1 or Stage2 Tarball?" --> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#stage12 "Now you can continue with Configuring the Kernel." BUG: After running ./bootstrap.sh, /etc/locale.gen is gone. Before doing emerge -e, it should be recreated... So the next step shouldn't be to 7. Configuring the Kernel, but 6.b. Configuring Portage/Optional: glibc Locales Reproducible: Always Actual Results: All locales are generated after emerge -e Expected Results: Only the locales I put in deleted locale.gen should be created
you're performing a stage 1 install. as stated in the documentation, stage1 installs are not supported, precisely because things like this happen. there's no need for one; please use a stage3 tarball. also, even if the file was deleted, all you need to do is create a new one yourself.
