See forum thread in URL. This bug is probably related to bug #3680. Hopefully this will provide more information needed to solve the problem. The version was 1.4 final, if that's not clear.
This bug doesn't seem to exist on the new version (the one with the fixed chroot problem) of the i385 basic Install CD.
cool, it works now :)
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.