James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> I was just following the handbook for an amd64 install; I have > not looked at the handbook in a while. I downloaded the stage3 > tarball and the portage-latest tarball at the same time, like I always > have done. The handbook give instructions for untaring the stage3, in > section 5, but not the portage tarball, or did I miss something? Well I see the emerge --sync takes care of installing a new portage. It's been a while; but I remember downloading a portage tarball and uppacking it? oh well, we'll see. No need to reply.... James