Gentoo installation error

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 09:45, Denis Mironnenko wrote:
> 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.

You are not alone.  Similar circumstances are reported semi-regularly on
the Gentoo user mailing list.  In sort ignore the msg to update, and
continue with the steps in the install doc.  

Aside, 'rsync' as an emerge option is deprecated.  You should use
'sync'.

Cheers,
Lloyd



> 
> 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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