Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:13:37
Message-Id: 4FB239F1.7030607@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install by Alex Schuster
1 On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Stroller writes:
3 >
4 >> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide.
5 >>
6 >> This has never failed me.
7 >
8 > For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to
9 > strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution:
10 > unset path.
11 >
12 > Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and SystemRescueCD
13 > defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the
14 > chroot. This messed things up a lot.
15 >
16 > Apart from that, I really like SystemRescueCD.
17 >
18 > Wonko
19 >
20
21 Did you do env-update && . /etc/profile after entering chroot?
22 I always thought that setting the right environment variables was the
23 purpose of that.
24
25 I personally an Ubuntu-Live-Thumbdrive, because some time ago (2 years
26 or so) it wasn't possible to install gentoo with LUKS on a btrfs volume
27 from the gentoo minimal cd.
28
29 The advantage of a live cd (especially for a beginner) is the
30 possibility to read the manual and google problems while installing.
31 Another possibility to do that would be an installation via ssh (works
32 nice too).

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