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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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:) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have just installed default-i686-20010524.tbz2 on a Compaq Armada E500 and all seemed to go well but a couple of points:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">c) Moving on to installing packages the "Portage User Guide" starts with downloading the portage tree with </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Times New Roman">rsync -avz rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-x86-portage/* /usr/portage</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">however after doing this my /usr/portage directory has only an app-admin sub directory ! What happened to the rest ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can you tell me where/how I can download the portage tree from ? Is it possible to use wget, CVS, whatever ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Michael Rychlik</FONT>
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