I'm trying to install Gentoo while booted into my existing Mandriva 2005 installation. The lines at the top of the quoted page tell me to use "mirrorselect" to select a mirror, but I can't find the mirrorselect program. I'm wondering if it is only available if I boot from the Live CD or something. I've tried editing make.conf manually, but the "SYNC=" line I end up with looks like this: SYNC="rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/" (that URL being a link I've copied from your mirror list), but the make.conf.example file has links like this: SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" I'm not sure whether I need to add a "-portage" and remove the trailing slash from my make.conf or not. It would be useful if the documentation could help me with this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
6.a. Chrooting Optional: Selecting Mirrors From the top of the page. Optional. You really don't need mirrorselect. And yes, AFAIK, mirrorselect is available only off the LiveCD or a Gentoo installed machine. Can someone please confirm and then close this bug?
If Mandriva doesn't have the `mirrorselect`, it's nto our business. Handbook describes installation from Gentoo Install CDs.
As I already commented in another bug report (Bug 93785), the document that you linked assumes (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2) that you are installing from Gentoo installation CD, so I can
As I already commented in another bug report (Bug 93785), the document that you linked assumes (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2) that you are installing from Gentoo installation CD, so I can´t see why this should be a bug. Moreover, this step is completely optional.
Well... It's an optional extra. On an installed machine, you can emerge mirrorselect manually... (20:12) beast stuartl # emerge -s mirrorselect Searching... [ Results for search key : mirrorselect ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-portage/mirrorselect Latest version available: 0.89 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 4 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Tool to help select distfiles mirrors for Gentoo License: GPL-2 It is worth noting, however, that not all installation methods include mirrorselect. The MIPS LiveCD and netboots don't have it (although now I know where to get it -- I might remedy that)... its presence on other non-mainstream architectures is questionable too. However, as Shyam has already said... it's *Optional*... I spose a small note that this is available on Gentoo/x86 and Gentoo/AMD64 (and perhaps a few other) LiveCDs only?
I guess I could install it, but I don't have any mirrors set up. I was suggesting that the handbook could offer a little more help in getting me set up with a valid "SYNC=..." line. In the end I had to copy the example line from make.conf.example rather than using my local rsync source. Comment #2 assumes I'm not using a gentoo install CD, but I am. I am booting into Mandriva and installing from the install CD. This is apparently a supported way of installing gentoo, according to chapter 6 of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml I've raised two bugs since I started following the handbook. They have both been closed as 'invalid' almost immediately when I've been trying to offer suggestions that would help fix the handbook. I'm confused - should I stop trying to help?
(In reply to comment #5) > Comment #2 assumes I'm not using a gentoo install CD, but I am. I am booting > into Mandriva and installing from the install CD. This is apparently a > supported way of installing gentoo, according to chapter 6 of > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml As I said in bug 93785, important thing is the environment which provides you root filesystem, not the one you're fetching tarballs, stages etc from. > I've raised two bugs since I started following the handbook. They have both > been closed as 'invalid' almost immediately when I've been trying to offer > suggestions that would help fix the handbook. I'm confused - should I stop > trying to help? This is *not* an issue in Handbook, but in altinstall. Your comments are of course welcome. So, I'd suggest adding simple "<note>You can expect some things to behave differently if you're installing from other media than the officially supported one.</note>" to the altinstall (not the handbook).
(In reply to comment #5) As I noted in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93785#c5, using an alternative install method assumes that the user employs common sense... So, make.conf.example is there exactly for the purpose of using it as a sample configuration file, you can even copy it to make.conf and edit to suit your needs. You don
(In reply to comment #5) As I noted in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93785#c5, using an alternative install method assumes that the user employs common sense... So, make.conf.example is there exactly for the purpose of using it as a sample configuration file, you can even copy it to make.conf and edit to suit your needs. You don´t need mirrorselect at all and won´t even get it when installing from Mandriva (as common sense suggests). Again, the handbook is aimed at users who are installing from Gentoo install CD (and no, you are not installing from Gentoo install CD, you are installing from Mandriva chroot and you don´t need the install CD at all in this case). Yes, you can follow the Gentoo installation handbook - but you need to take is with a grain of salt (common sense). It needs to be concise and not cluttered with useless remarks like "don´t run mirrorselect if you are missing it b/c you are installing from another distribution´s chroot". Would you like to state what improvements are you exactly suggestion for the install docs? Thanks.
