Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

On 2011/05/12 17:03 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:

> On 2011/05/12 16:41 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

>>  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 seems to
>>  have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject utility
>>  prior to chrooting and having any such utility in $PATH. I've never installed
>>  Gentoo before, so maybe I've missed something. Or maybe that page could use
>>  another link or some rewrite to clarify?

>>  I tried to find an answer via http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ but it
>>  seems to lack a search function/box. :-(

> It's been quite awhile since I installed, but ISTR that mirrorselect
> must be emerged after chrooting into the new envirnment.
> You can also just add mirrors manually, like this:

> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/
> ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/"

Since I'm familiar and happy with mirrors.us.kernel.org performance, I might 
rather use that, or rsync.us.gentoo.org (if that's not yet another/separate 
entry make.conf needs, not clear from my reading of the OP URL). So all 
GENTOO_MIRRORS needs is the same URL once as http and once as ftp, or is that 
something specific to mcs.anl.gov?

It's encouraging to try a new distro, join its mailing list, ask a question, 
and get 3 answers within half an hour of asking, and even get one 17 minutes 
before I asked the question (2011/05/12 16:24 (GMT-0400) Todd Goodman using 
Mutt). :-)

In the pages preceding 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 it 
seemed as though the process would be easy enough, having built up some 
experience working in chroot lately to fix fubar'd Fedora and Mandriva rpm 
database disasters (https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32547 & 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680508).

I guess I missed the requirement to be running Gentoo to be able to initiate 
an install of Gentoo. I thought whatever Linux was already installed would be 
good enough, until I got to the mirrorselect instructions, and found no 
incorporated alternative such as Indi has replied with.  Indeed, not needing 
to have booted Gentoo to run a Gentoo installer was part of the allure that 
got me started.

I have more than 20 functional multiboot puters, with few having less than 4 
installed operating systems. More typical is 12+. What I use 24/7 are 
openSUSE and eComStation. Most of the rest are either backup, or 
[OS,browser,web site] testing only.
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