Gentoo AthlonXP 20030731 liveCD install bug in nano

[T_Bone]

fdisk /dev/hda
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
mkreiserfs /dev/hda3
swapon /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-*.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf /mount/cdrom/snapshots/portage-20030731.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
cp -R /mount/cdrom/distfiles /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/
mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
nano -w /etc/fstab

**ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION**

huh? wtf?

nano

**ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION**

damnit, buggy nano. brought to my knees by a bug in a text editor, sheesh.
I'd do a stage 1 install, but I don't feel like spending 3 days compiling.

[Cass]

Maybe the binary is missing? Or hasn't the proper flags (I assume that you're logged as root)?

Anyway, this is bad for a distribution (especialy for essential bin utils)... sadly.

The great thing about BSD is that you can "borrow" any distribution/*niX binary for the same architecture (AthlonXP in your case), and simply replace the missing/malfunctioning one (binary compatibility, no matter for what kernel was compiled).
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[T_Bone]

It's there, just spits out Illegal Instruction whenever run.

nano --help works, but that's it

[BouncingAyatollah]

(Obviously) that shouldn't have happened, but especially since there was a fix applied pre Gentoo 1.4 that related to 2.4.20 kernels and Athlon-XPs especially (although some Athlons too).

I had this problem too pre-1.4 but found that the 1.4 LiveCD fixed it (for me).

Here's a thread about the original problem:

Gentoo forums

I found a bug regarding nano causing "Illegal instruction" in Bugzilla marked as FIXED so don't know whether you should re-report this or pop onto IRC #gentoo and ask if it is still a known/reported problem? AFAIK the AthlonXP LiveCD specifically has been errr .... problematic. You could try the i686 CD but of course you would not know whether the same thing will occur until this point again.

[BouncingAyatollah]

Oh yeah, to "mark your card" as it were, if you get that working, I had problems emerging Gnome too so went KDE for now (don't know details of any resolution to this as I prefer KDE). Also if you wish to use OpenOffice *don't* use the openoffice-bin supplied on the current CD2, remove that from your local portage packages/All directory and emerge openoffice-bin from the up-to-date portage tree on the 'net, this works.

[T_Bone]

Downloading the i686 CD now. Found a thread on Usenet with the problem, but worked ok from stage 1... and I don't have that much time so I'll just download this new ISO and let'er rip from stage3.
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