Bug 60490 – LiveCD doesn't allow emerge (programn name) to execute, it says emerge isn't a known command

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description John Havlik 2004-08-15 14:44:36 UTC]

almost in the middle of installing Gentoo 2004.2 for the first time, i get to the system logger part of the installation and start to unmerge sysklogd to emerge metalog after but then the consol clames that emerge isn't a command. I decide to skip it and go to the boot loader section and attempt to emerge grub and it gives me the same issue

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot LiveCD Universal X86 for 2004.2, using the gentoo-nofb (the only way i can get in.)
2. once loaded attempt to emerge grub

if that doesn't do it, go thought the installation instructions in the handbook.
use the stage 3 for i686 kernel and compile it (it allowed me to emerge that)
then continue until you get to installation part 9.a. system logger this is where the problem should first occure.

Actual Results:  
the result of the error is a message claiming that emerge isn't a command

Expected Results:  
it should have emerged the program that was requested to be emerged

wish i could paste emerge info from the command off of the live cd, but i'm dual
booting 'tell i get gentoo all the way up so that is nearly impossible.

[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-08-15 14:51:31 UTC]

you need to be chrooted into your environment (chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash) before you can emerge anything. the livecd is not suppossed to have Portage on it - we don't have the room.

[Comment 2 John Havlik 2004-08-16 14:06:12 UTC]

"you need to be chrooted into your environment (chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash) before you can emerge anything"
That's what i thought but it doesn't let me chroot either, I'll just try from the beginning again to see if that helps.