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chobo123
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 Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:25 am Post subject: Bootstrap problems |
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Hi, I'm new to Linux, and Gentoo, so go easy on me. I am trying to install Gentoo using a Universal live CD, doing a stage 1 install. I got to section 6 in the installation guide, but now I'm stuck. Everytime I run the following code:
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# cd /usr/portage
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It trys to download patch files from Gentoo mirrors. I thought by using the Universal CD install method I wouldn't need a working internet connection. What am I doing wrong? |
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sekretarz
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You must have internet connection when you install Gentoo only from universal cd. You must have packages cd, too, when you don't have working internet connection
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slycordinator
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And if you're doing a stage1 install it most definitely requires a network connection.
From the install guide section on bootstrapping and the "-f" option:
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If you haven't copied over all source code before, then the bootstrap script will download all necessary files.
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abuda
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| Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| Same thing happened to me. You need to do a stage3 installation if you don't have an internet connection and/or if you are to install binary packages (grp) from the second cd (packages). |
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chobo123
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I went back I got my internet connection working, and started the bootstrap process. I didn't specify the -f switch; is that important? Also, how long does it take to complete the stage 1 bootstrap process? Mine has been going on for almost 3 hours now  , and will it let me know if there are any errors, once it has completed? |
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slycordinator
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| chobo123 wrote: | | I went back I got my internet connection working, and started the bootstrap process. I didn't specify the -f switch; is that important? Also, how long does it take to complete the stage 1 bootstrap process? Mine has been going on for almost 3 hours now , and will it let me know if there are any errors, once it has completed? |
-f tells it to do "fetch only." This would be useful if you were say on a dial-up connection and wanted your net connection to only be up and used while you were actually downloading.
So if you leave out the -f it downloads the first thing's sources and installs them then does the same for each of the remaining.
But if you first call "scripts/bootstrap.sh -f" it downloads all those sources at once, and then afterwards call "scripts/bootstrap.sh" it will go through the bootstrap process using the sources you already downloaded. |
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