Okay guys, Tried to install gentoo, it didn't work, here's what I did. Oh, 
and lude in #gentoo pointed out an error in my untarring of the sys.tbz2, so 
that solves one problem.

Anyway, I logged in, set up my HD like so:
/dev/hda1   64M  Linux     (83)
/dev/hda2    3G  Fat32LBA   (c)
/dev/hda3  512M  LinuxSwap (82)
/dev/hda4   36G  Empty      (5)
/dev/hda5   16G  Fat32LBA   (c)
/dev/hda6   20G  Linux     (83)
wrote the part table without any problems, then rebooted just for the heck 
of it.

Logged back in, did:
mkreiserfs /dev/hda1
mkreiserfs /dev/hda6
mkswap /dev/hda3

All went well.

Rebooted again for good measure.

did:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo -t reiserfs
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot -t reiserfs
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660

the last mount gave me:
mount: /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read only
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/mod probe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/mod probe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2

Mount showed everything correctly, so I continued with:

bzip2 -dc /mnt/cdrom/default-i686-20010525.tbz2 | tar -xvf - /mnt/gentoo

Waited close to a minute and got:

tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported
tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported

waited another 10 seconds and dropped back to the shell. Yes that error 
appeared 16 times.

did:

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: no such file or directory

cd'd into the gentoo dir and looked around, but there was only my solitary, 
empty boot folder.

Anyway I'll be trying this again with cat 
/mnt/cdrom/default-i686-20010525.tbz2 | bzip2 -dc - | tar -xvf - from 
/mnt/gentoo and see how it works.

Thanks guys,
-Dan
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