On 10 Oct 2003, at 5:17 pm, A. S. Budden wrote:
I've managed to get it going now, using slackware's "zipslack" install that puts a 100 MB partition with a working linux on your harddrive. This made it very easy (once I'd figured out how to get the network up and running).
However, not that I think it's going to stop the install from working,
but I don't have a "mirrorselect" program anywhere in the stage1 system,
so I don't know how I should set it up to use mirror.ac.uk rather than
whatever it defaults to.
Mirrorselect doesn't work from the LiveCD, anyway, I don't think - there was, at one time at least, a problem with the Bash environment. So I don't know if it'll work from your Slackware install. But if you want to give it a go, I don't think you can emerge it until around stage3. I think the earliest you can try entering `emerge mirrorselect is after `emerge system` has completed at Code Listing 12.1 of <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap12>.
But it's just as easy to enter the mirrrors yourself manually, anyway. You can edit /etc/make.conf using vi or nano or whatever (see <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap10>; the relevant lines of mine say:
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ \
http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ \
rsync://rsync.gentoo.skynet.be/gentoo/ \
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ \
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ \
rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ \
ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ \
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo \
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo \
rsync://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/ \
ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ \
ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ \
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ \
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ \
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ \
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo \
http://www.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo.org/ \
ftp://ftp.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/pub/gentoo.org/ \
rsync://rsync.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo \
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ \
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ \
rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ \
ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/ \
ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo \
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo \
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ \
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ \
rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ \
ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ \
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo";
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
The back-slashed linebreaks appear to be valid & make the file easier to read & edit.
HTH,
Stroller.
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