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
