On 15.05.2012 11:11, Alex Schuster wrote: > Stroller writes: > >> I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. >> >> This has never failed me. > > For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to > strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: > unset path. > > Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and SystemRescueCD > defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the > chroot. This messed things up a lot. > > Apart from that, I really like SystemRescueCD. > > Wonko >
Did you do env-update && . /etc/profile after entering chroot? I always thought that setting the right environment variables was the purpose of that. I personally an Ubuntu-Live-Thumbdrive, because some time ago (2 years or so) it wasn't possible to install gentoo with LUKS on a btrfs volume from the gentoo minimal cd. The advantage of a live cd (especially for a beginner) is the possibility to read the manual and google problems while installing. Another possibility to do that would be an installation via ssh (works nice too).
