Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 May 2011 16:41:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: I tried to find an answer via http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/ but it seems to lack a search function/box. :-( Use Google, search for search string site:archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user -- Neil Bothwick When the going gets tough,

[gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=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

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=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

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Todd Goodman
* Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net [110512 16:15]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=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

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:41 on Thursday 12 May 2011, Felix Miata did opine thusly: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=6 seems to have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject utility prior to chrooting and having any such

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Indi
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=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

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
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=1chap=6 seems to have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject utility prior to chrooting and having any

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: 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=1chap=6 seems to  have a circular reference, that is,

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Indi
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 02:20:01AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/12 17:03 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On 2011/05/12 16:41 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:06 on Friday 13 May 2011, Felix Miata did opine thusly: I guess I missed the requirement to be running Gentoo to be able to initiate an install of Gentoo. This is not correct I thought whatever Linux was already installed would be good enough, this is

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/13 02:37 (GMT+0200) Alan McKinnon composed: That part of the doc assumes that the user is indeed running from the LiveCD-like environment provided by the official installer. There are other docs (far less verbose in their explanations) covering alternate install sources. My actual

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
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=1chap=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