Summary just about says it all. I boot "gentoo" fron the "Universal Installation" LiveCD 2004.1 (exact same thing happens with 2004.0), setup disks tar -xvjpf stage1 tar -xvjf the portage -C ... cp distfiles portage/distfile scripts/bootstrap.sh Using... >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.7.9.r1 >=sys-apps/portage-2.0.25 .... Configuration... and emerge tries to download portage-2.0.50-r5 from various sources. Of course this fails because I don't have an internet connection. USE="gnome" in /etc/make.conf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Gentoo using Stage1 w/no network connection 2.follow the instructions (html docs) 3.See 'Details' above. Actual Results: bootstrap.sh fails when it cannot download portage-2.0.50-r5.tar.bz2 Expected Results: emerge should have not tried to download anything, but only use what is local. download failure should not be fatal to bootstrap.sh.
What is the contents of your /usr/portage/distfiles at that time? (please attach, if possible)
You cannot do stage1 or stage2 Installations without a network connection. This is only possible via stage3.
doh! I missed that one... sorry