[kraddler2003]

i just tried to install gentoo.I followed instruction line by line and got as far as installing kernel sorce..i chose the gentoo kernel,but when it got to emerge {9 of 12} it tried to download a package and since im doing a stage 3 install i have no network setup..thats as far as i got..anyone a gentoo user with any answers./?

[tsunam]

<--the local Gentoo user

Okie so you are doing a networkless install, OIH!

you got to the point of getting the actual kernel source to be installed and did a emerge gentoo-sources correct?

First things first were you chrooted? using the chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash?

I also assume your using the 2004.1 discs to do this? Did you grab the Full big discs or did you grab the minimum install disc instead?

(if you have it networked/connected to the internet we can just simply set that up before you do the emerge and have it do its thing and you get more choice which gentoo is about (knowing the connection and type will help)

BTW great choice on a distro. You'll learn a lot from using it, moreso then redhat or the like . Even debian *nudges Whiteskin* j/k (though debian makes it SOOOOO easy for kernel installs...apt-get (kernel) modify lilo...reboot....

[Whiteskin]

(You dont even have to modify lilo... it does it automagically.) Tsunam is right though. You will definately know much more about your system by the end of a gentoo install compared to 99% of other distro users. (The only ones who will really know more are LFSers (linux from scratchers)). Other than that i'm going to stay out of this discussion (Last time i did a gentoo install.... lets just say... headache), as i'm not a gentoo user.