Cant get from Stage 2 to Stage 3! Pls help

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brimen · Post by **brimen** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:07 pm

Hi... this is my very fist installation of gentoo on my PowerBook G4 15".

I choose the Universial LiveCD installation without network.

I made my way through the documentation until step "6.d. Progressing from Stage 2 to Stage 3" (building the system packages).

I have already untared the stage archiv + the portage snapshot and copied the distfiles sourcecode to the hdd. Then I switched to the new enviroment. Until then everything worked fine.

But then: whenever i try to do

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# emerge system

emerge tries to download the portage files instead of using the ones I copied the the disk.

So, how can I make emerge use the files on the disk? Any suggestions?

furkan · Post by **furkan** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:34 pm

did you use a modem or adsl eth etc ? if it is a modem kbps....you can't install stage 1 and 2

brimen · Post by **brimen** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:51 pm

what do you mean? i didnt use any modem. What is a "modem kbps"?

I used the Universial LiveCD 2004.0 because i couldnt get my internet connection working (pptp on ppc).

Stage2 and Portage Snapshot are from the CD.

Tii · Post by **Tii** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:52 pm

I think that you can only do a stage 3 install without a network connection though I could be mistaken.

furkan · Post by **furkan** » Mon May 17, 2004 8:58 pm

sorry i mean modem

because with a modem it is tooo difficulty to install with stage 1

brimen · Post by **brimen** » Mon May 17, 2004 9:29 pm

at least the manual says it should be possible to do stage 2 without network.

Isnt there a simple way to tell emerge where to look for the sources?

Kiroku6 · Post by **Kiroku6** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:03 pm

Are you sure the manual says that you can do a stage 2 install without a network? I dont think you can. I would just go with a stage3 install. Especially if this is your first time installing linux (not judging just saying if it is).

furkan · Post by **furkan** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:32 am

i don't think you can install it without internet you can just use stage 3 + GRP for without internet
because check here
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=1&chap=2 in stage 2 it sais "Not suitable for networkless installations" and same thing for stage 1

furkan · Post by **furkan** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:33 am

use stage 3 with grp it is very fast to install gentoo and it takes 30-50 minutes

brimen · Post by **brimen** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:10 am

Thanks. You'r right.

I must have overread that ...

So the next step would be to get all the stage 2 stuff off my disk and untar a stage 3 archiv.

Another thing: to use GRP I have to download the packages CD as well, havn't I?

rewt · Post by **rewt** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:30 am

You can do a stage 3 with only the live CD. If you want to not have to download and compile KDE, X, etc then you need the packages CD but just to get a basic kernel and portage so you can emerge sync and emerge you don't need the packages CD

brimen · Post by **brimen** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:36 am

Thanks a lot.

Now things are getting clearer to me