Help installing gentoo

[Markfw]

This is soo complicated I hope I can find somebody local, who could come over and help. I follow the directions exactly, and there are missing directories, so I create them (/proc /etc /usr /bin) and then copy missing files from the instructions (make.conf) from where I found them on CD to where they were supposed to be, but weren;t, even though I have followed the directions closely.

Right now I am trying to "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash" per the instructions, and it says "no such file or directory". So thats when I created the /bin/bash directory/ and copied /cdrom/bin/* /mnt/gentoo/bin/* hoping it would help, but still I get the same error.

Help Please !!!!

 

[SUOrangeman]

Whoa. Let's take a few steps back.

It sounds like you have downloaded some Gentoo ISO (is it ithe latest, 2004.3-r1?) and have burned it to disc.

Are you working with a completely new hard drive, or a drive that that already contains data (say, an existing Windows install)?
Did you (re-)partition the hard drive to make room for some Linux partitions?
Have you created and formatted those partitions?
Have you mounted those partitions?

What stage are you using?
Did you extract the stage properly onto your Linux partition(s)?

-SUO, about to play around with a Gentoo install while within KNOPPIX

 

[silverpig]

We need to know the setup of your harddrive and what partitions are on it, what stage of install you're doing, whether you've downloaded and extracted the stage tarball etc... tell us exactly what you've done.

 

[oog]

you shouldn't need to manually create those things that you said you created. as others have said, let's take a few steps back and see where things went wrong.

 

[silverpig]

All of those directories should have been created automatically just by decompressing the stage tarball you download. The basic gist of a gentoo install is:

1. partition and format your hard drive
2. download stage tarball and decompress it (you should now have /mnt/gentoo/bin /mnt/gentoo/usr /mnt/gentoo/etc ...)
3. chroot to new install (hacks off the /mnt/gentoo basically)
4. compile/install your system