I'm a newbie, so be kind! I'm trying to install Gentoo from one of the boot CDs (test4). The CD boots and I get into the environment. I follow the instructions in the Alpha handbook on partitioning etc. I successfully chroot, env-update, and source. I successfully emerge sync. I attempt to run the bootstrap.sh as found in the documents and I get this error: Gentoo portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; Distributed under the GPL Starting Bootstrap of base system ... Using >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.3 Using >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.36 Using >=sys-devel/binutils-2.13.90.0.4 Using >=sys-devel/gcc-3.2 Using sys-devel/gettext Using >=sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r7 Using >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.2-r5 Using sys-libs/zlib Using >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020112a Configuring environment... --- 'profiles/arch.list' is empty or not available. Empty portage tree? Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy ">=sys-apps/portage-2.0.36". !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. I also get this with the stage3_alpha-1.4-r1.tbz Any help would be appreciated Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Gentoo / # emerge info !!! Using `which gcc` to gcc locate version, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-alpha-1.4, gcc-3.2, glibc-2.2.5-r7, 2.4.19-xfs- gentoo-cd) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-xfs-gentoo-cd alpha cat: /etc/gentoo-release: No such file or directory Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.53a Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.6.1-r6 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ev5 -O3 -pipe " CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share /config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ev5 -O3 -pipe " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alpha berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
It seems that if you don't do a emerge sync, the bootstrap in the stage3 passes the dependencies. However now it seems to be failing on a specific module (sysvinit-2.84.tar.gz).
never mind about not finding the sysvinit file. I forgot to copy my resolv.conf file this time round
What happens if you use the latest stage1? Currently that is stage1-alpha-20040313.tar.bz2?
I didn't realize that there was any other stages than what was in the 'releases' folder. I did a search on Google and found this file in the 'experimental' folder. I'll try this next and let you know what I find.
I downloaded stage 1 and it seems to be functioning as expected. ( The only thing that seems to be a problem with the stage is that /dev/null wasn't defined but that could have been something I did in unpacking the bz2(?).) The scripts/bootstrap.sh in the new stage1 does seem to get past this problem though. Thanks for your help.
