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Originally Posted by kid robusto

S far so good, I am up to copying over the portage tree. What i am wondering is did i miss a step or is the manual missing a step? When I came to: tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20031011.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr ; it gave me some error msg. I dont know if i did the right thing, but I : mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr : and now it seems to be unzipping everything alright, but should i have like mounted it or something?

weel i got pas that part for now, i hope. but now a few mins later, i am upto where i have to open nano to edit the make.conf fiel, execpt i dont have one, and there isnt ever a /mnt/gentoo/etc folder. How have i gone so wrong?



</edit>Spelling

It sounds like you may not have extracted your stage tarball to the right place... It has to be extracted to /mnt/gentoo (After that is mounted, of course); the easiest way of doing this is to copy it to /mnt/gentoo, cd to that directory, and then untar it..


Don't forget the gentoo forums, http://forums.gentoo.org, are a great resource of knowledge for just about everything...