Bug 16194 – Stage 3 tarball overwrites resolv.conf with Gentoo build env information

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Rex Washburn 2003-02-22 16:05:34 UTC]

I am using the athlon-xp GRP live cd. I checked my /etc/resolv.conf to make 
sure my info was present on the second attempt.  When I unpack the stage3 
tarball it overwrites my information with the name server information from 
gentoo.org.  I checked /etc/hosts file and it contained the IP info for the 
Gentoo environment.  I only checked /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts and both 
contained gentoo.org info.  I used net-setup eth0 to configure networking and 
it was up and running.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Follow install directions from gentoo.org site
2.Double check /etc/resolv.conf to ensure it contains your info and not 
gentoo.org info
3.Unpack stage3 tarball from athlon-xp GRP cd
4./etc/resolv.conf should now be overwritten with gentoo info.

Actual Results:  
config files are overwritten with gentoo network info.

Expected Results:  
Following the install directions should have yielded a system that could 
emerge sync without hand configuring the system.

[Comment 1 Rex Washburn 2003-02-23 13:15:09 UTC]

More Info:  Using the athlon-xp GRP live cd when installing using the stage 3 tarball networking is disrupted preventing emerge to occur.  I manually update using ifconfig after chrooting into the new environment.  Once networking is updated I am able to continue with the installation.

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 02:25:23 UTC]

the documentation is now correct, and resolv.conf is copied after the tarball is extracted.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:23:57 UTC]

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.