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On 4 March 2014 22:26:27 CET, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 2014-03-04, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> It's not 100% apparent how the install works from reading the |
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>handbook, |
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>> you have to do it to see how it works. Do note that all distro |
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>installer |
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>> work in this general way, Gentoo just lets you see more of the |
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>process. |
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>> In summary: |
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>> You need a running OS to install an OS. You get this anywhere you |
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>choose |
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>> but the easiest is to boot from a removeable media (CD, USB, etc). |
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>Booting the Gentoo minimal install "CD" (from CD/DVD or USB flash |
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>drive) is the canonical way to get to the point where you start |
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>following the steps in the handbook. On one recent install, I used |
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>systemrescuecd 4.xx, which gives you a nice minimal XFCE desktop with |
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>the Midori web browser you can use to read the handbook (and wander |
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>around the web while stuff builds). There was one step -- installing |
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>syslog-ng, I think -- where there was a glitch due to an environment |
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>variable set by srcd. |
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>Immediately after doing the "chroot" do the following command |
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># export path= |
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>See below for more details |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-921678-start-0.html |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-786386.html |
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>Another convenient option is to boot the minimal install CD make sure |
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>network works, start sshd, and then log in from another machine where |
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>you can cut/paste stuff from the handbook into a terminal window. |
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The last install I did was with the latest sysrccd. (Downloaded at most 2 weeks ago) and I had no issues with syslog-ng. |
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Did you follow the step where you do " source /etc/profile "? |
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Joost |
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