Using GRP

[bcavalieri]

I'm lost on a couple parts of Install Manual.

I'm using the Pee3 GRP live-cd (don't have 40 hours to wait for install )

My quesiton is in section 7, it say's now is a good time to set it up, I cd to the correct directory and type sh grp-install.sh kde-list.txt, get an error about emerge not being found.

Then in section 15, it says "If you bind mounted /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages previously", I can't find in the manual where it told me how to do that..

Any help would be appreciated, btw I really like the cfdisk utility, really dumbed it down for me

[edgar_t_2000]

I have the same problem using gentoo-grp-pentium3-1.4_rc2.iso.

When executing sh grp-install.sh kde-list.txt, I get the error message: emerge: command not found.

After taking a look at /usr/bin/emerge I found out it should point to ../lib/portage/bin/emerge. But /usr/lib/portage is an empty directory!

Maybe this is an error in the livecd I got?

Regards,
Kai

[gon]

before chroot, try

mount -o bind /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages /mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom

then after you chroot, you should have access to packages folder in /mnt/cdrom/.

It worked for me but not sure correct way to do it. Since I'm a newbie, maybe someone else can explain better than me .

[bcavalieri]

looks like docs got updated the version i printed for install did not have the mount instructions, if you do the mount like above, or like it says now in the install guide, GRP install works great (minus my crappy excuse for cdr media)

[edgar_t_2000]

Same applies to me, it seems to work with the updated install instructions.

Thanks everyone!
Kai

[jconover]

After I got my 1.4_rc2 laptop up and running today.

I just:

mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom -o ro -t iso9660

cd /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages

sh grp-install.sh xfree-list.txt kde-list.txt

15 minutes later, I'm using KDE 3.0.4

That was better that the last time I emerge kde and it took 439 minutes.

Works for me!