On Mon, 08 May 2006 02:18:11 -0500 Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words:
> If you are using the default mirrors, change them. I ran into timeout > errors all the time with the default mirrors. I think I used this > one: > > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ > > I think that will work better if you are running into the same timeout > problem I used to have. You may want to try "mirrorselect -i -r". > Please, make a backup of make.conf before you run that. Some have ran > into problems with it messing up the file. Just pick the mirror that > is closest and works. Try different ones if you need to. > > Dale > :-) I was going to try that, except of course I can't emerge mirrorselect. Wouldn't you know it. However, I can always edit make.conf by hand. And I have learned the virtue of backing up config files. The hard way of course. Thanks Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://204EastSouth.com/OTFStore.htm The Cynical Libertarian Society: http://www.204EastSouth.com/cls -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
