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I have searched extensively and have not found anything related to my |
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question, but I apologize if it has been discussed here before. |
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I am attempting to install Gentoo on a new AMD64 box from the 2006.0 |
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install CD. All the components of the system are brand new, so there |
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was no pre-existing installation of any operating system. The |
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difficulty I am having is that bunzip2, md5sum, and some functions in |
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Python will not execute properly, which makes dealing with Gentoo |
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basically impossible. I have been fighting with this for over a week, |
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and I intend to switch to an x86 install on the same hardware if I |
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cannot get this working soon. |
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The basic problem is that bunzip2 cannot successfully decompress most |
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files under AMD64. I succeeded in getting the stage3 tarball installed |
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by scp-ing the .tar.bz2 file over to an x86 box, running bunzip2 on it |
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there, and scp-ing the .tar file back. I had to do the same thing with |
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the portage snapshot from the install disk. I am to the point of |
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installing a kernel, but I cannot get emerge to run. I had to replace |
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every os.chown() call in portage with an equivalent call to |
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os.system("chown " + ...), and edit the ebuilds to look for .tar files |
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instead of .tar.bz2 files. I also built static copies of bunzip2 and |
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md5sum on an x86 box and placed them on the path, but no success there |
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so far. I know this all sounds crazy, but this is the 8th computer I |
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have built over the last 10 years, and my 6th Gentoo install, so I know |
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pretty well what I am doing. This is my first experience, though, with |
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AMD64, and it's making me wish I'd bought another P4 instead.... |
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The motherboard is an MSI K8N Diamond Plus with 2 GB of OCZ DDR400 RAM |
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on it, and an OCZ 520-Watt power supply. I'm trying to install to a |
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Seagate 300 GB PATA drive, which shares the first IDE channel with the |
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DVD-ROM drive. I don't think there are any hardware issues, as the |
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system will stay up for days, and it will run memtest86 all night |
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without errors. I'm just frustrated with all the software issues, and I |
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would have given up long ago in favor of an x86 install if it were not |
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for all the messages on this list from people who seem to be running |
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Gentoo just fine on similar hardware. Any assistance you can offer will |
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be greatly appreciated. |
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Regards, |
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Lance Jacobs |
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lance@×××××××.net |
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