Gentoo!

Righto, updating portage now. I got some crazy errors before that I nailed down to the html of a 404 error page in my make.conf that got there from mirrorselect I guess, but I'll soldier on :)
 
Originally posted by burns
hmm, I'm struggling to get into the environment on my hd. I do

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update

and it gives the following errors:

!!!invalid token (not "=") is
!!!ParseError: Invalid token(not "=") /etc/make.conf:7

I'm guessing I got some incorrect syntax in my make.conf, but I can't load vi having done the chroot bit:(. Any ideas?
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That's what I got. Can you run nano? I had a 404 error page in there :)
 
Hmm, it's giving this message;

Resolving groff.ffii.org [ip addrss] failed: connection refused
!!! Couldn't download groff-1.18.1.tar.gz


What's groff, and do I need it?
 
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
OK press ctrl-c to break out of emerge system if it hasn't timed out or given you the connection refused error the do
Code: 
cd /usr/portage/distfile
wget [url]http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gnu/groff/groff-1.18.1.tar.gz[/url]
emerge system
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There isn't a dir called "distfile", but there is "distfiles", is that the one?
 
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
No the portage tree is held in /usr/portage and when you update portage it just updates all the ebullds in /usr/portage. When you install something via emerge the source files are held in /usr/portage/distfiles. During the install process the source files will be unpacked, patched etc in /var/tmp/portage.
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Ah. What happens after emerging? Are the archives deleted or do they stick around?
 
Originally posted by riven
lol, emerging is how you install most software so you need the archive there! you periodically update it of course.
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No, I meant the archives as in the file archives, the gunzipped whatsits :) I figured, like Mpemba, that it'd be sort of a waste of hard drive space to have them lying around. I'll just delete them after I finish installing.
 
Okie doke, will do :)

I seem to remember seeing a script on the Gentoo forums that scans for cruft such as files that are no longer dependencies and whatnot so that you know what to delete, so I'll probably give that a whirl after I get everything set up.
 
Well it was going fine, but now I'm getting another time out getting openssl, ftp.win.**.jp is being annoying.

Is there a way to.. "pause" it whilst I add another mirror?
 
Originally posted by Mpemba Effect
No way to pause it unfortunately. You can try adding a # to the beginning of of the GENTOO_MIRRORS= in make.conf. I think it will then try to download everything from ibiblio.org.

It must be something funny today with broken mirrors.
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No need - it timed out 5 times and is now getting it from a different mirror, which is great :) Thanks anyway :D
 
Specs:

Mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe, it's an nForce 2
CPU: Barton 2500+
Hard drives are some old Maxtor 4gb that I'm installing on and a new Maxtor 120gb SATA that has Windows on
GPU: Sapphire 9800 Pro
Sound: PCI Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Samsung DVD and Samsung CD-RW...

Need anything else?


EDIT: No virtual terminals, just the one.

EDIT 2: New mirror seems to be working fine, hopefully everything will actually work this time :p
 
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So what's the difference between modules and compiling in then? I take it modules are slower as they have to be loaded each time the kernel boots?

What are the advantages of them then?
 
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