While running the GUI installer from the 700mb LiveCD, the install failed, this is a copy/paste from the last part of the log file: >>> Emerging (11 of 13) x11-terms/xterm-222 to / >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz' --09:10:22-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 216.165.129.135, 140.211.166.134, 156.56.247.195, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|216.165.129.135|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 09:10:22 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz' --09:10:22-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.46.7.109 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.46.7.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 09:10:23 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading 'ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-222.tgz' --09:10:23-- ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-222.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xterm-222.tgz' Resolving invisible-island.net... 216.194.205.136 Connecting to invisible-island.net|216.194.205.136|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /xterm ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR xterm-222.tgz ... No such file `xterm-222.tgz'. !!! Couldn't download 'xterm-222.tgz'. Aborting. Reproducible: Always
Don't do a non-networkless install with the snapshot on the CD. We don't keep distfiles on the mirrors for packages that haven't been in the tree for 8+ months.
*** Bug 208621 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***