Gentoo installation error

[Denis Mironnenko]

I am following documentation. After doing Section 9 the emerge told me that 
I need to update my portage tree so I did and got the error. Now I did 
update after doing bootstrap and it seemed to work.

Thank you.


>From: Dan Lang <drl4967-nE92ml7/ZJ6Vc3sceRu5cw at public.gmane.org>
>Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Gentoo installation error
>Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:00:01 -0500 (CDT)
>
>
>
>On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Denis Mironnenko wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install Gentoo using State 1 tarball. After doing emerge
> > there is a message saying that I should do an update. But update fails 
>when
> > trying to install ncurses the message is
> >
> > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> >
> > What does this mean? Am I misssing some library?
> >
>You should rsync emerge first.
>
>'emerge rsync'
>then you have to run the bootstrap.sh script. this builds binutils, gcc,
>gettext and glibc
>'#cd /usr/portage'
>'#scripts/bootstrap.sh'
>
>It sounds like you didn't get above installed, so run the bootstrap.sh
>script.  After that run,
>'#emerge -u system'
>
>That will install a base system and you can have fun after that.
>
>All of this is in the documenatation btw:
>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dan Lang
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