Installation from LiveCD Problems

[th3dougler]

hey... Ive been using ubuntu comfortably for quite a few months, done quite a bit of customization and whatnot. Gentoo seemed like something I wanted on my machine, so I burned the LiveCD and was very impressed with its minimalism and whatnot

I decided to install it using the wizard, the configuration all went smoothly and it looked like i didnt screw anything up [famous last words]. But about mid-way through the install it tells me:

There was an Exception received during the install that is outside of the normal install errors.  This is a bad thing. The error was:[Errno 5] Input/output error

I googled it... learned nothing, and am in a bit of a pickle. As it formats the drive before it finds the error. I know I'm not giving you much to work with, but even the compile_output file is corrupted for some reason.

In Review:
x86 Arch
Using LiveCD
No errors during configuration

Any help would be appreciated

EDIT: I hope the answer is not "lurk moar"

[tech_man]

I decided to install it using the wizard

Well there's yer problem!

[jan1024188]

Live cd sucks because it has 10000000000000000 of bugs.....

Download 55mb installer (without stage and portage ) and gentoo hanbook. Than install gentoo manualy (by inserting commands and editing files).

Good luck in next "installing week"

[th3dougler]

This is what I feared most :'(

Alright, I'll likely bump in a few days.

[th3dougler]

b-b-b-b-bump

the install went smoothly (or so I thought)

I must have missed something stupid, because now Gentoo isnt resolving hostnames. i.e.
ping www.google.com
results in nothing
but..
ping 64.233.167.99
is successful.

Halp!

EDIT: okay, when I boot up the live cd the /etc/resolv.conf file has a line

nameserver 192.168.2.1

and my gentoo setup does not, I tried to copy over the file but something keeps writing over it at boot

EDIT: EDIT:

Everything works if i just add

nameserver 192.168.2.1

manually... but I dont want to have to do that at boot, every boot

surely this is not a problem for a bunch of smart people such as yourselves :3

[dasmius]

did you add your ethernet card to the defualt run level?

#ifconfig

if you don't see an eth0 set up there and you just see the lo there the eth0 wasn't added to the default runlevel

what I did was during the install after I unpacked the stage and portage tree I added the net-eth0 to default runlevel by entering.

# rc-update add net-eth0 default