installation problem

[prong]

trying to cp /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/ but i get this (-/bin/bash: /bin/cp: argument too long). this my first time trying to install linux ever. i'm trying to leave windows for good it crashes too much. need help

[whynot]

try this

cp -R /mnt/cdrom/distfiles /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-...ickinstall.xml

[bigjohn]

Code Listing 15: Extracting the Portage snapshot

# tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20041202.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

Networkless Installation or Not?

If you are performing a networkless installation, you also need to copy over all source code from the Universal LiveCD. If not, you should skip this step and continue with Configuring the Compile Options.

Code Listing 16: Copy over source code

# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
# cp /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/

Erm, I used to get some bloody stupid stuff at that point, because I thought I was reading the docs correctly, but I wasn't.

I kept leaving out the -C /mnt/gentoo/usr after I'd typed in the tar -xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20041202.tar.bz2

When I'd got it right, the bit at "Code Listing 16: ...etc" went very smoothly.

dunno if that'll help any?

regards

John