1st stage 1 install on Sparc. At Part 6c and no /usr/portage

chris_andrew

Hi, all.

I'm just doing my first install of Gentoo Stage 1 on a Sun Ultra 30 (sparc64). All is going well (phew!). I am now at Part 6c and want to run the bootstrap script (bootstrap.sh). I need to cd to /usr/portage, but for some reason I don't have a portage directory under /usr. Can anybody help, as I don't think I can progress any further.

Thanks,

Chris.

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:

Did you "emerge --sync" yet ?
This is what populates the /usr/portage directory.

chris_andrew · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject: Tried emerge sync

Got a "-3 temporary failure in name resolution"

Should I be doing it in the chroot environment. Surely I don't have to do the emerg sync, as I downloaded a fresh stage 1 tarball.

Would like to get this working, so please tell me if you think i've got it all wrong.

Failing this it could be back to an old looking and slower Debian.

Thanks,

Chris.

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Tried emerge sync

chris_andrew · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject:

Cyrillic,

cp' my resolve.conf into /etc, and did emerge --sync within chroot. It's doing something...will keep you posted. Must read-up on chroot, as it has obviously confused me.

Cheers,

Chris.

chris_andrew · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject:

That did the job.

Cheers.

Chris.