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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