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 tou

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=1&chap=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 disa

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 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

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 t

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Felix Miata 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=1&chap=6 >>> seems to >>>  have a circular reference, that is, suggesting

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=1&chap=6 seems to have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject utility prior to chrooting and having any s

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=1&chap=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 instal

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=1&chap=6 seems > to have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject > utility prior to chrooting and having any such uti

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

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

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

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

[gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

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