From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 21:56:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCC8FDD.20407@kutulu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DCC7600.2010807@earthlink.net>
On 5/12/2011 8:06 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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.
You don't need to be running Gentoo to install Gentoo. You
do need to be running a Gentoo install CD to follow the
Handbook's "How to install Gentoo using a Gentoo install CD"
guide. But you could perform the same basic steps using any
bootable CD and get a working Gentoo system.
Mirrorselect in particular is completely optional; you don't
*have* to set a specific distfile or rsync mirror. Portage
will use sensible defaults. Or, you could just as easily set
up your selected mirror with a text editor :)
--Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <gRKZA-5RW-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-05-12 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install Indi
2011-05-13 0:06 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-13 0:33 ` Mark Knecht
2011-05-13 0:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-13 1:40 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-13 1:56 ` Mike Edenfield [this message]
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[not found] ` <gRLsC-6N0-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gROgN-35v-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-05-13 0:35 ` Indi
2011-05-12 20:41 Felix Miata
2011-05-12 20:24 ` Todd Goodman
2011-05-12 20:52 ` Mark Knecht
2011-05-12 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-13 8:27 ` Neil Bothwick
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