>
> Does the dialup work at all. Can you ping any of the gentoo
> mirrors? Did
> mirrorselect work?
emerge mirrorselect is further down the page under "Last configuration
touches". Which is a puzzlement. Before failing portage tried connecting to a
long list of sites.
How did portage know where to look? make.conf has only the CFLAGS and CHOST
lines. Nothing about where to look for files.
>
Yeah, the weird thing is I could download stuff onto the Desktop but not emerge
or even wget from the chrooted environment.
So I shut everything down and rebooted. The only thing I did different this
time was to neglect to set up or start ssh. Mounted the drives, chrooted and
emerged gentoo-sources. Worked fine.
BTW, I followed the advice on the eeepc forum not to install a swap partition.
I wonder if that is why the portage tarball took so long to unpack.
IIRC tuxonice's wifi wouldn't work so I used xubuntu, wifi starts up
automaticamente on this model.
mw
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