Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?, &&

[Felix Miata]

Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:57 (UTC-0600):

> Felix Miata composed:

>> Are you sure you read what I wrote and not what you think I wrote? Pages like
>> LMGTFY *leads to*, not LMGTFY. I was where that *leads to* yesterday and the
>> day before while progressing generally through wiki.gentoo.org and
>> www.gentoo.org futilely trying to reconcile what's available according to
>> Distrowatch and what's sitting on Gentoo's mirrors.

> I'll be blunt, basically the intention was to say you should use
> google for these kind of questions, the options are really obvious if
> you have read the instructions in the gentoo wiki, and don't go to
> Distrowatch when trying to find instructions to install gentoo(why
> would you do that?).

1-Distrowatch is what lead me to believe I could do something I wished to do.

2-Support for the Distrowatch info that produced that belief defies discovery
on gentoo.org.

IOW, searching doesn't always produce useful results. Even when results are
putatively useful, not everyone sees the same words as having unambiguous
meaning. If they did, wither mailing lists and other QA forums.

e.g. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Base discusses
use of mirrorselect, before it directs to start chroot. In the context of a
non-Gentoo boot (as offered in the alternative boot instructions) to get to
stage 4, how exactly is mirrorselect to be found?

Re progress: I'm at the point of running emerge --ask
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, but it quits if I say no, and fails emerging
sys-devel/bc-1.06.95-r1 (emake AR="$(tc-getAR)") if I say yes. :-(

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