Thanks space weather is out of here, I think. I got a flash drive I can copy make.conf to and maybe share it with the list if I can't figure out what broke. I chose the systemd stage3 file latest version since I've not had exposure to openrc and the other type of system gentoo offers in the past. I know a little bit about systemd.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dale <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:29 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] doing gentoo install disrupted > > > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I got down to emerge-webrsync and discovered an error in > > > portage/make.conf on line 21 non-existent server then emerge-webrsync > > > tried to get a time stamp and then speakup died. > > > I have a single ssd slot in this machine and may be able to attach the > > > gentoo ssd to the computer by usb so I can recover contents of my > > > make.conf file and find out what happened in there. It will be a long > > > way back to chroot before I can try this again and that's not > > > happening today due to space weather. The computer will be off until > > > tomorrow and disconnected. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You can pick up where you left off at pretty much any point in a Gentoo > > install. If you have to shutdown or unmount your install, just follow the > > mounting and chroot sections again. Once you have that done, pick up where > > you left off. In the past, I've had to do that before and it does fine as > > long as you remember where you left off. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > Even if you don't remember where you left off, just check if each step has > already been done before you do it. > > And unpacking the stage3 I think is the only one likely to actually hurt > anything if you do it again. The others would just waste a little time is > all. > > LMP >
