Gentoo AthlonXP 20030731 liveCD install bug in nano

[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.