On Sat, 18 May 2002, electric-light-heads wrote:

> hi
> thanx 4 answering the Qs on vi..
> am looking forward to emerge vim @ gentoo
> BUT BEFORE THAT
> am struggling at the installing (gentoo from debian) process..
> did a further resaerch via the web
> and..
> 
> extracted the stage1 @ the mounted /mnt/gentoo
> did the
> mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
> thang
> cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc
> cp /etc/hosts /mnt/gentoo/etc
> was done
> edited fstab & make.conf
> 
> chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
> emerge sync
> env-update
> emerge rsync
> source /etc/profile
> ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Japan /etc/localtime
> went ok
> 
> emerge -fetchonly for
> baselayout,gcc,glibe,binutils,gettext and system
> also had no problem
> 
> BUT
> 
> emerge system
> 
> made me wait for a long time and resulted into
> 
> !!emerge aborting on /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-3.2.3h-r4.ebuild
> 
> (don't know how to copy the log yet...excuse me)
> 
> mmmmmmm...
> 
> am trying thing @ iBook-Tangerine
> and the partition 4 gentoo's root is only 500M
> will it be impossible anyway?
>
Urk. You will probably run out of room when you start trying to download 
and unpack the source trees for stuff like XFree86 and Mozilla; maybe even 
as early as the initial glibc build.
I've got 9 GB devoted to gentoo right now; it's a little more than half 
full, but I've installed quite a few packages.

> thanx in advance...
> 
> PS
> 
> anyway is there also the original vi @ gentoo's tree?
> if vim requires X then i would stick to vi..
> does it?

> wanna be a Sound oriented Gentoo user but controling thangs
> only from the promt-mode..
> 

 --- Joe M.