From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVY4q-0002iz-Sn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D610EE062C; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B142FE062C for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BC366F3E for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.481 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.481 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.118, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id W56rCk4Ynlwj for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD4466356 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MVY4c-00014O-Nf for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:34 +0000 Received: from pool-173-71-218-206.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([173.71.218.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:34 +0000 Received: from en.ABCD by pool-173-71-218-206.clppva.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: ABCD Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 5.b. Default: Using a Stage from the Internet Followup-To: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:49:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0ab39f3cd065c24dc11f8fc09b72322d@linuxant.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-71-218-206.clppva.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: KNode/4.4 pre Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8e90a1f2-65b0-495b-8b75-d3e5d14cafcb X-Archives-Hash: 7ae59f79c77ac492e386006a59bef099 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Xavier Parizet wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:49:58 +1000, Brenton > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Having a go at installing Gentoo don't really know what I'm doing. Seems >> to >> be an error with the file I've downloaded. Should I try download again? > > You just have to download stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS, which is at > the same location than the stage and the DIGESTS you download... > So, don't worry, your stage seems to be OK ! > > HTH. > >> livecd gentoo # md5sum -c stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.DIGESTS >> ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2: OK >> md5sum: ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: No such file or directory >> ./stage3-x86-2008.0.tar.bz2.CONTENTS: FAILED open or read >> md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 2 listed files could not be read >> >> Portage seemed to be fine: >> livecd gentoo # md5sum -c portage-latest.tar.bz2.md5sum >> portage-latest.tar.bz2: OK >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brenton. > Personally, I would suggest using a newer stage3 than 2008.1; there are new stage3 tarballs generated every week in [1]. You probably want the stage3-i686-*.tar.bz2 file. (The *-i486-* files are for systems older than or otherwise not compatible with the Pentium Pro, IIRC). [1] http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/autobuilds/ - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpuIN4ACgkQOypDUo0oQOpZ+wCfWkrv8aLYpTYpObxfydnqfSHJ MXEAnRtqV2cMjYVGae6n8ZEGnT7mtwMb =jVzS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----