I have Gentoo ~AMD64 (unstable), i want to install on another partition Gentoo ~x86 or x86 following the Handbook on Gentoo.org for x86 and netinstall i mounted the empty partition on /mnt/gentoo downloaded Stage3 for x86 (686) and latest portage expanded them.. setted up my make.conf (see it below) profile 2006.1/desktop and etc... then mounted proc and dev filesystem on /usr/gentoo/proc and /usr/gentoo/dev then: linux32 chroot /mnt/gentoo /bash/bin env-update source .... export PS1=.... emerge gentoo-source emerge grub make menuconfig && make && make modules_install && make install so i have compiled the 32 bit kernel optimized for K8 processor (Athlon64) then emerge vixie-cron etc... emerge --sync emerge --update --deep --newuse system it stopped with linux_headers installation.. and i've seen it was trying to emerge an x86_64 headers.. many other "emerge" failed with weird error (push pop error or something like that) and if i try emerge gnome or emerge alsa-tools or other.. i take the "circular dependance" error.. i've read this is a portage bug and to try later.. but i've waited.. re-synched and still have this same issue.... i've noticed some package installed if i changed the USE variable.. like alsa-utils (not tools), when i removed "doc" use variable it installed like a charm... could be the problem im trying to installa a 32bit system from a 64bit system? it is that possible? am i doing something wrong? here my make.conf # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -m32 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.modulix.net/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo " SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" LINGUAS="it en" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" USE="-qt -qt3 -qt4 -kde howl fglrx it 3dfx 3dnow sse sse2 mmx X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa audiofile bash-completion berkdb bidi bonobo bzip2 cdinstall cdparanoia cdr clamav crypt cscope cups dbm dbus dedicated dio directfb dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd ethereal examples expat fam fbcon fdftk ffmpeg flac flash fortran ftp gb gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gnustep gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal ieee1394 imagemagick imlib jabber jack java javascript jbig joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit lash ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mbox mikmod ming mng motif mp3 mpeg msn mule nas ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl php pic plotutils png portaudio ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl session shorten slp smartcard sndfile sockets speex spell spl ssl startup-notification svg symlink tcpd tetex theora tiff tk tokenizer truetype unicode usb v4l vcd videos vorbis wifi win32codecs xine xml xpm xprint xv xvid zlib 16bit 3dnowext 3ds 7zip abook activefilter adsl amarok amazon amd amr amrr amuled ao aotuv applet aqua aqua_theme artworkextra auth automount background be beagle bigpatch binary-drivers bitmap-fonts bittorrent bl blender-game boo bootsplash br branding buttons cairo cardbus cdda cddb cdio cdsound cg cgi ch chm cli cmdsubmenu corba coreaudio cpudetection css cvs cvsgraph dcc dcraw demo dhcp djbfft djvu dlloader dnd dolby-record-switch dvi eap-tls edl ee effects emf emoticon epson es escreen extrafilters extras faillog fame fat fbsplash fi filter firefox font-server fontconfig fuse gadu gaim gdb gg gimp gimpprint glib gmail gmailtimestamps gnome-print gnuplot graphicsmagick gs gsm gtalk gtkspell gvim gzip hddtemp hfs hou html http httpd hwmixer i8x0 ical icon id3 ide il image imlib2 inkjar ipod irc irda is isdn isdnlog it jfs jingle jp jrtplib jumpplay lame lcd ldapsam libdsk libnotify live madwifi mail math mixer mjpeg mod mounts-check mouse mozsvg mp4 mp4live mpd-mad mpe mpeg2 mplayer msnextras multi-tty multicall multiuser musepack music musicbrainz n32 nat nautilus net netbeans network new-login nfs njb nl no nokia6600 nptlonly ntfs ode on-the-fly-crypt pager patch player plib plugin pmount pnp pop pppd pri print ps pt qt quotas rar re real reflection rhythmbox rtc screen script server sftp shout skins sms sofia-sip sou stream submenu subp subtitles swat tagwriting tcp text tga thumbnail thunar-vfs timidity tools transcode truetype-fonts tv_check tv_pick_cgi type1 type1-fonts udev unzip upnp ups v4l2 vdr vidix vim vim-pager vim-with-x vis visual visualization vlm widescreen winbind wma xanim xchat xchatdccserver xchattext xfs xorg xscreensaver xvmc yp za zip"