[gentoo-dev] /usr/portage, cb_enabler, 3dfx, rsync ...

Hi all,

I am new to the Gentoo system, having used mainly Red Hat and Debian in the
past. After building Linux From Scratch a couple of times I was (and am)
fascinated by the portage concept and had to try it out as soon as possible.
Here are a few hitches I have experienced and a few questions. Not too much
for a single post I hope:) 

My first install from a build-ix86-20010513.tar.bz2 proceeded well however
it transpired that the drivers for 3dfx cards do not get built when X is
compiled. Maybe this is fixed now I don't know because...

I have just installed default-i686-20010524.tbz2 on a Compaq Armada E500 and
all seemed to go well but a couple of points:

a) I could not find the kernel module "cb_enabler" on any of your
boot/rescue disk sets. This is required to get the tulip_cb module loaded
for my pcmcia ethernet card. After "borrowing" said module from else where I
managed to get networking up.

b) Having got the default profile running I moved on to configuration as per
"Gentoo Linux Installation Guide". This went well except that grub looks for
files in /boot/grub and the kernel in /boot NOT /boot/boot as suggested.

c) Moving on to installing packages the "Portage User Guide" starts with
downloading the portage tree with 

# rsync -avz   rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/*    /usr/portage

however after doing this my /usr/portage directory has only an app-admin sub
directory ! What happened to the rest ?

Can you tell me where/how I can download the portage tree from ? Is it
possible to use wget, CVS, whatever ?

Sorry to be so wordy. You may here from me again as I indent to persist with
Gentoo. I think it's a great idea. I'll try to be brief in future.

Thanks

Michael Rychlik