I am trying to install Gentoo VM on Virtual Box hosted on Windows 7. I created a 4 GB Fixed Disk then booted to a sys Rescue CD partitioned my 4GB SDA to boot=512MB, linux swap=512MB and root=3GB using ext3 file system. I am following the Gentoo install manual, all is fine until
Step 1 6b. Configuring Portage the fails to to install portage snapshot keeps saying: to multiple directories. Yes I have mounted and chrooted into my live gentoo install. Step 2 I then saved the latest snapshot of portage to the /usr folder and ran this installed some of the files and folders then started to error again like before. Both times I was checking my unused space on the root: Step 1 obvisouly does not use any space but Step2 it only uses 1.5 GB of the 3GB then fails. I should not need more than this 4GB. I just want to install to practice compiling software for Gentoo. I just created another VM and made it a 10GB fixed drive confiured bot to 100Mb linux-swap =512MB and root=9.40GB and the portage installed using 1.70GB so lesson learned root partition must be bigger than 3GB for whatever reason.

You don't even need a separared boot partition for a virtual machine just swap, everything else goes on root(/) partition, 6Gb would be more than enough, 10Gb will give you some extra space for sure.

Regards

I tried that first and had no success. I am able to install as described above, the current stage 3 tarball uses grub-2 and I cannot seem to master the reboot without first going to my sys rescue CD and booting to operating system on the hard drive. I believe my issue is somewhere in the grub-2 configuration however I am unable to figure this out let alone find any current grub-2 documentation for Gentoo as a guest on Virtual Box. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Does it give any error, any clues about what is happening ?

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No not anything substantial, I did make a clone and install on another host computer and it booted fine so I believe it may have something to do with the lack of memory on my laptop host or some other configuration of my laptop host. With the clone image on my other host computer the eth0 is being named to enp0s3, I have been trying to get it to work. Some articles about the udev and rules however in the /etc/udev/rules.d their are no files to edit for my eth0/enp0s3. I am just getting started with this Virtual Box and some experience with Gentoo. Is there something I could be overlooking. I have checked my log files and nothing stands out except the enp0s3 (network)changing.
Thanks for you response. I have to get this figured out to create 3 guests for LDAP, SAMBA & DHCP-DNS services these are not desktop guests.
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