Re: [MLUG] gentoo mirrors

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

In the installation docs, there is a shell command for setting up your 
mirrors.  Sometimes this doesn't Do The Right Thing.  Adding some more 
"official" mirrors to the gentoo mirrors variable in make.conf can solve 
the problem.

-N

Shawn Parker wrote:

>
> i'm installing 2004.3 on my sony vaio s150 notebook and it seems to be 
> working fine now.  for the past couple of days bootstrapping has 
> failed on me.
>
> i found a couple of work-arounds in the forums.  the missing protector 
> package was solved by simply adding an old mirror back into my 
> GENTOO_MIRRORS list in make.conf.
>
> this time, i also ran bootsrap.sh -f first to fetch all the files i 
> needed...since the bootstrap was failing at the download portion...first.
>
> i haven't had any errors yet, today.  knock on wood.
>
> :)
>
> Michael Procter wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Shawn Parker wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> is anyone else having major problems with a gentoo installation?
>>>
>>> mirrors are timing out.  entire packages are missing.  my bootstrap 
>>> failed on the protector-3.2.2 package yesterday.  today, 
>>> textinfo-4.7 is missing.
>>>
>>> is it just me, or is there some problem?
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I haven't been doing fresh installs, but my cron jobs for emerge world
>> --update and emerge system --update have been chugging right along.
>>
>>  
>>
>
>


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