On Thursday 13 February 2003 15:39, a tiny voice compelled you to write:
> > The point is that hundreds of people on this list have installed Gentoo
> > in the past couple of weeks and have not run accross the issues you seem
> > to be seeing. You must admit that if you are the only one experiencing
> > these problems the question begs to be asked: What am I doing wrong.
> > Your initial attitude was that someone at Gentoo or their mirror sites
> > has messed up. I think that the fact that no one else has confirmed your
> > assumptions proves that it is you, and not the mirrors that have "messed
> > up" Try the install again. Forget EVERYTHING you think you know about
> > Linux and follow the instructions verbatum. If a former RedHat user, with
> > almost no command line experience like me can install Gentoo, certainly
> > you can. And, when you experience problems, post a question here. Try to
> > ask with a bit of a "pleading" attitude rather than your present "WTF"
> > attitude and someone here will be happy to help
>
> Lord be merciful... I have spent at least 30 hours re-installing and
> redownloadeding over the last month.. I've installed various other Linux
> distrobutions and operating systems successfully on this same hardware in
> the mean time.. I read the old version of the instructions...word by
> word..letter by letter... I track down the pricise problem and it's
> perfectly verifiable but you all simply refuse to admit its existence and
> tell me to keep beating my heading against an obvious brick wall...
>
> I mean, I can understand being greatful for you assistance and all, but
> this is plain torture.. You're not even trying to assist.
>
> What could be simpler than this:
>
> 1. Download the package..
> 2. Unpack it with this command:
>
> cd /mnt/gentoo
> tar -xvjpf stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 (presuming it's been copied to
> here)
>
> Now if the files are not anywhere in there, then they are definitely not in
> the package......how can this not be true, regardless of any amount of
> instructions or people who download it? They are obviously downloaded
> different versions or simply giving up on this one.. If there is a problem
> with my IDE bus, then other OSes wouldn't have flawlessly installed on it.
>
> If thousands of people have successfully downloaded this then could one of
> them just tell me specifically where they downloaded a stage1, 2, or 3
> package for the i586 architecture, that they know worked. I will be very
> happy, appreciative, and back to my work..
First allow me to repeat myself. YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON REPORTING THESE
PROBLEMS. Now, as to mirrors, I have installed successfully from stage3
tarballs found on the main mirror at ibiblio.org and one at Georgia Tech and
another at Oregon State.
Look on the Gentoo site for the mirrors list. I tend to prefer the Ga Tech
mirror, I find it fastest for me here in South Florida. One thing you could
do is check md5's at several mirrors.Good Luck Matthew, I hope you get this
worked out but please, as I said before, try to come at this as a newbie, at
least as far as reading the instructions. Read nothing into them and NEVER
assume that you know what to do next
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Regards, Ernie
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