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He means
Code:
export USE="-X" && emerge ati-drivers
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
He meansCode:export USE="-X" && emerge ati-drivers
meh, works both ways doesnt it? just ones more correct?
like masked ebuilds, i probably do them completely wrong (i just browse to the folder in the tree and emerge the exact ebuild with the .ebuild on the end!)
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He'll be emerging X either way. -X is not an option, X is essential when emerging the ati-drivers and X will be installed regardless of -X or not. The only way to not install essential dependencies is to use the --nodeps flag.
Rob tbh I would recommend not installing X and the ati driver yet. Get your system up and running with a working kernel first so that it's at least bootable without the bootcd. So install your logger, configure your network device and grub etc. Reboot, if all is working nicely then install X and then ati-drivers, then pekwm.
Originally posted by robmiller
Um... no
Is this bad?
no, you'll want X in the end, but it just means you now have quite a while of downloading and compiling.
i recommend leaving it over night.
i'll probably hit the sheets soon, so if you dont here much more then i'll check back 2moro and see how your getting on
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Yeah thats the way I do them too, that way I know which masked buld I'm using (otherwise it will default always to the latest masked build). But this is only possible for normal masked ebuild. Some ebuild are "hard masked" in the /usr/portage/profile/package.mask
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Do start a new thread thoughOriginally posted by arty
Good thread this, I'm mentally taking notes of what I need to do later this week with a very similar system
I'll have the Gentoo handbook and these forums open on my main PC as I set it up I think
arty
It gets difficult to track everyones questions when it's all together 
I'm still boot straping here. I suppose the chances of anyone who could tell me at what point it's safe to shutdown the computer being awake are minimal? Looks like it's going to be a long night, I've got to make sure my net connection doesn't go down
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do you get grub up?
if so then what do you get after selecting your grub entry?
do you get any text from the kernel or just nothing ness?
just a thought, did you remember to copy your bzImage to the /boot partition (and mount the /boot partiiton first).
the good news is that if you have done something wrong then i think you've got far enough that you can just chroot from the live cd.
it recon its something trivial like the above, or getting something slightly wrong on you grub config.
if its just something with the grub config then you can acctually manually type in the kernel parameters to boot it then modify you grub.conf.
anyway, let us know *exactly* whats happening, then you can try different things to try and narrow it down