Shoot. I wish I could have caught you before you did this. If you followed the Gentoo instructions, you probably created a /boot partition right? Well, its not *required* we could have turned that partition into the management partition. Sorry you had to start over :-( On Friday 30 January 2004 01:05 am, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > When I started this Gentoo install I removed all the partitions from the > laptop. > It's a Compaq Armada 7770, it needs the setup partition to hold the date > of the system. > That would be the reason for the error I got telling me that a date > was... can't remember now. > > So I'm running "emerge sync" now and will start the compile tomorrow. > > Night All, > > Sam > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list