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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 2011/05/12 17:03 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: |
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>> On 2011/05/12 16:41 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: |
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>>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 |
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>>> seems to |
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>>> have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject |
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>>> utility |
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>>> prior to chrooting and having any such utility in $PATH. I've never |
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>>> installed |
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>>> Gentoo before, so maybe I've missed something. Or maybe that page could |
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>>> use |
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>>> another link or some rewrite to clarify? |
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>>> I tried to find an answer via http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ |
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>>> but it |
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>>> seems to lack a search function/box. :-( |
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>> It's been quite awhile since I installed, but ISTR that mirrorselect |
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>> must be emerged after chrooting into the new envirnment. |
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>> You can also just add mirrors manually, like this: |
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>> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ |
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>> ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/" |
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> Since I'm familiar and happy with mirrors.us.kernel.org performance, I might |
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> rather use that, or rsync.us.gentoo.org (if that's not yet another/separate |
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> entry make.conf needs, not clear from my reading of the OP URL). So all |
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> GENTOO_MIRRORS needs is the same URL once as http and once as ftp, or is |
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> that something specific to mcs.anl.gov? |
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> It's encouraging to try a new distro, join its mailing list, ask a question, |
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> and get 3 answers within half an hour of asking, and even get one 17 minutes |
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> before I asked the question (2011/05/12 16:24 (GMT-0400) Todd Goodman using |
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> Mutt). :-) |
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> In the pages preceding |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 it |
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> seemed as though the process would be easy enough, having built up some |
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> experience working in chroot lately to fix fubar'd Fedora and Mandriva rpm |
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> database disasters (https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32547 & |
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680508). |
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> I guess I missed the requirement to be running Gentoo to be able to initiate |
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> an install of Gentoo. I thought whatever Linux was already installed would |
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> be good enough, until I got to the mirrorselect instructions, and found no |
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> incorporated alternative such as Indi has replied with. Indeed, not needing |
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> to have booted Gentoo to run a Gentoo installer was part of the allure that |
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> got me started. |
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> I have more than 20 functional multiboot puters, with few having less than 4 |
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> installed operating systems. More typical is 12+. What I use 24/7 are |
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> openSUSE and eComStation. Most of the rest are either backup, or |
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> [OS,browser,web site] testing only. |
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> -- |
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> "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant |
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> words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) |
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> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! |
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> Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ |
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Felix, |
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Welcome. |
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OK, I personally think (not speaking for anyone except myself |
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here...) that the Gentoo Install Guide is based on what Todd suggested |
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- the *idea* that the person that's following it booted a Gentoo |
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Install CD. That' a pretty natural assumption I think. You want to |
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install Fedora, you boot a Fedora CD, Ubuntu, Ubuntu CD, etc. |
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That does _not_ mean however that you MUST boot a Gentoo Install |
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CD, and it doesn't mean that you have to follow the guide explicitly. |
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For instance, I seldom set up mirrorselect on new installs as I |
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generally just copy a make.conf file from another machine and that |
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copy has the address. I typically don't use links to download the two |
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big tar file, I do that on some other machine that's already running |
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Gentoo and the ssh them over to do the new install. |
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I guess the point is that there are about as many ways as you want |
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to do this install. The documentation folks did what works for most |
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people and let others proceed on their own as they wish. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark |