i cant install gentoo on my laptop

[muhammedda]

thanks for everything

[muhammedda]

now i have a problem again when i want to configure portal (gentoo handbook 6.b)its giving error.
>>emerge --sync
ARCH is not set ... Are you missing the '/etc/make.profile' symlink?
is the symlink correct? is your portage tree complete?

i couldnt solve it

[ursusca]

Hi,

You have to create a symlink. I use a desktop profile and in my /etc directory i have this symlink:

make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop

So for desktop profile you have to run this commands:

# rm /etc/make.profile
# ln -sn /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/10.0 /etc/make.profile

[muhammedda]

i got it but why didnt they mention about this section in gentoo handbook.whatever
does the name matter?i am using weekly installer,2007.0 stage
and i wanna use xfce as graphical interface also my graphic card is ati which packets must exist in make.conf
thaks again

[ursusca]

i got it but why didnt they mention about this section in gentoo handbook....

You are wrong about gentoo documentation, Buddy Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo Upgrading Guide
You can view the list of profiles on your architecture officially supported by Gentoo developers when you emerge eselect and then run the following command:

# eselect profile list

Make sure your Portage is updated before performing any profile changes.
The eselect utility will let you view and select profiles easily, without needing to create or remove symlinks by hand.

# eselect profile set <number>

[muhammedda]

when i type eselect pofile list it says command not found

then i have written emerge --sync this time it says ARCH is not set ... Are you missing the '/etc/make.profile' symlink?
is the symlink correct? is your portage tree complete?

[MikeTbob]

Please post a copy of your /etc/make.conf file.

[ursusca]

You have to emerge app-admin/eselect package.

[muhammedda]

FLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"
FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch fixpackages -userfetch"
PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages"
DISTDIR="/usr/local/portage/distfiles"
RPMDIR="/usr/local/portage/rpm"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
VIDEO_CARDS="ati vesa"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel intel"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
USE="
3dnow acpi addressbook alsa applet -arts avahi branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo calendar camera cdaudio cdda cddb cdr cdrkit crypt css cups curl
dbus designer-plugin dga dhcp dhcpcd disk-partition divx dvd dvdr dvdread
eac3 eds emovix encode esd extrafilters exif
fam fbcondecor ffmpeg flac fuse
gdl gedit geolocation gif git glitz gnome gpg gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal hddtemp htmlhandbook hvm ieee1394 imagemagick inotify -ipv6 irc
java javascript jpeg jpeg2k -kde lame lm_sensors libburn libnotify mad matroska messenger mjpeg mmx mmxext mp3 mp4
mp3tunes mpeg mplayer msn mtp multilib musepack musicbrainz nautilus network networking newspr nfs npp nptl nptlonly nsplugin
offensive opengl ogg oss pdf php plasma plugins png ppds pulseaudio qt3 qt4 quicktime desktop real realmedia ruby samba sdl smp sms sndfile spell
sse sse2 sse3 startup-notification subversion svg svn taglib tagwriting theora tiff tools totem transparency truetype type1 usb
v4l v4l2 vcd vnc visualization vorbis wav wavpack webkit wifi win32codecs wma wmf wmp X x264 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid
zeroconf zip"

[MikeTbob]

Everything looks sane to me, did you download and install a portage snapshot?
Section 5c
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook