Killing links2 during stage 2 download

Roguester · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Ok, first of all, I'm new to linux so please bear with my ignorance.

I started installing gentoo on an old system to play around with, I used the handbook and everything was working with a few hangups I managed to solve.

However, when I try to download the stage 2 tarball, it gets about halfway through the download, then kills links2. I've tried several times with the same result. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:43 pm Post subject:

What happens if you grab the URI using Links2, then actually download it by using wget? Does it kill wget then?
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Roguester · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Hmm... not sure what wget is, but I'll try it.

lwithers · Guru Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 300 Location: Reading, UK

"wget http://server/filename" will download a file. It can do HTTP and FTP.

Also, where are you trying to download the file to? Are you in the /mnt/gentoo directory or the root directory?

And have you tried to download it from a different server?

Roguester · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Got the wget downloading now, we'll see what gives.

Yes, I'm downloading to /mnt/gentoo directory

Roguester · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Wget got it, thanks for the help.

Roguester · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Ok, moving on..

emerge sync failed.

Kurse · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject:

emerge-webrsync is included in stage 1,2, and 3, so if you dont have it, I would assume you had a bad stage file, or perhaps you extracted it in the wrong place.

Better re-trace your steps in that area.