Hello,

I like to learn Linux ( I had a Mandrake distro installed for about 2
weeks, but decided to switch ) and I installed gentoo from the LiveCD,
using the stage3 tarball ( I have no connection to the Internet at the
moment - my adsl modem must be setup later)

First, I had to copy this tarball into /mnt/gentoo and extract it from
there, otherwise it stalled, giving a lot of tar errors.

But that's OK now, running it from /mnt/gentoo did the job ( I presume
)

I came to the point where I have to compile the kernel.
So I switched to chroot and gave the command:
# emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

but then I get the message there's no "profile directory" and the
execution stops.

being a newbie ... here it stops for me too :-)
I have no idea whatsoever what this means ...

Can somebody tell me what's happening and how I can solve the problem?

PS: sorry for my bad english

Thanks

Vito

Did you do chroot and then install stage 3 or did you chroot AFTER you did
the stage 3 install? Did you follow the installation instructions exactly?

Vito wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I like to learn Linux ( I had a Mandrake distro installed for about 2
> weeks, but decided to switch ) and I installed gentoo from the LiveCD,
> using the stage3 tarball ( I have no connection to the Internet at the
> moment - my adsl modem must be setup later)
>
> First, I had to copy this tarball into /mnt/gentoo and extract it from
> there, otherwise it stalled, giving a lot of tar errors.
>
> But that's OK now, running it from /mnt/gentoo did the job ( I presume
> )
>
> I came to the point where I have to compile the kernel.
> So I switched to chroot and gave the command:
> # emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>
> but then I get the message there's no "profile directory" and the
> execution stops.
>
> being a newbie ... here it stops for me too :-)
> I have no idea whatsoever what this means ...
>
> Can somebody tell me what's happening and how I can solve the problem?
>
> PS: sorry for my bad english
>
> Thanks
>
> Vito

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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:26:14 -0400, Brett Holcomb
<brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:

>Did you do chroot and then install stage 3 or did you chroot AFTER you did
>the stage 3 install? Did you follow the installation instructions exactly?

After, exactly like the install manual told me to do.


>> First, I had to copy this tarball into /mnt/gentoo and extract it from
>> there, otherwise it stalled, giving a lot of tar errors.
>>
>> But that's OK now, running it from /mnt/gentoo did the job ( I presume
>> )
>>
>> I came to the point where I have to compile the kernel.
>> So I switched to chroot and gave the command:
>> # emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
>>
>> but then I get the message there's no "profile directory" and the
>> execution stops.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 07:21:47 +0200, Vito <vito@tiscali.be> wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:26:14 -0400, Brett Holcomb
><brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
>
>>Did you do chroot and then install stage 3 or did you chroot AFTER you did
>>the stage 3 install? Did you follow the installation instructions exactly?

Well, I just restarted from the liveCD and did he things the manual
says and ... it now works !! I have no clue why it didn't yesterday.

Compiling with genkernel took a while but it seems to be OK.
I can now boot via lilo and login as root or user.

Ofcourse I now have to install the packages, first I need to get my
adsl-modem to work ( it worked under Mandrake with the driver from
FlashTux). Or maybe I can install packages from CD, I presume that the
X-environment can be found on the CD too.

Any tips or suggestions are very welcome

Vito