I do refer to the german manual - so I use the german labelling: In chapter "6.a Auswahl des Mirrors" it is said that one can select the mirror by using the tool mirrorselect. But it is not mentioned, how to get this tool and it is not included in the "stage3-amd64-20140529.tar.bz2". So it should be added a "Befehlsauflistung: Installation von mirrorselect für die GENTOO_MIRRORS-Variable emerge mirrorselect" because the emerge command is not mentioned before.
The mirrorselect step happens before you chroot, so you use the copy of mirrorselect the minimal installcd provides.
Hi Ben, actually I did not. I'm running here a EFI-System an usually boot ISO-Images with grub loopback-device. Unfortnately I could not manage to boot the gentoo-ISO. Thus I decided to install the gentoo basic system from my Ubuntu: I downloaded the stage 3 tarball and unpacked it to the desired Partition. After that I made the chroot and tried to setup the Kernel. Although it is not strikly followed the manual I don't think it's too unusual. And agreed, I found out by myself how to install the mirrorselect. But I think it would be helpful to mention how to get it as long as it is not part of the stage 3 tarball. So you may consider my proposal. kind regards Stefan
we can't support every non-Gentoo CD out there. our docs pretty much expect you to be using our media, which provide the proper tools. documenting non-gentoo OS edge cases like this is beyond the scope of our guides, i think.