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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] first rc4 pre2 installation guide problem
From: <drobbins () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2001-01-30 11:19:01
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:03:31AM -0500, Dave Bresson wrote:
>
>
> Ok, thanks to the new guide that's up, i now know the proper options for
> my /boot partition. However, there seems to be some sort of problem going
> on with the directions in the guide, specifically with the configuring the
> settings section. Right after it says to do a 'chroot /mnt/gentoo' you're
> to perform the 'env-update' command. When running 'env-update' i get a
> "Error: /mnt/gentoo does not exist!" or some such error. This of course makes
> sense, since that dir is now the root directory, however something tells
> me that this *isn't* the way the command is supposed to work (i think).
> Is it supposed to do this? And of course, exiting out of the chroot'ed
> shell to run 'env-update' doesn't work b/c then it can't even find the
> command. I've also looked at the python code for env-update in
> /usr/sbin/env-update, however i haven't been able to come up with a
> solution to this problem. Any ideas?
You'll notice that the new install guide does not mention setting the $ROOT
environment variable. You're having a problem because you setting $ROOT,
which is no longer required with the new install method.
just "unset ROOT" after chroot, and env-update will work.
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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