Installing Gentoo - Problems with my mirrors while emerging

[matt2kjones]

Hey im doing a gentoo install on a system.

i went though the whole process of setting everything up, mounting the discs, extracting the stage 1 tarball. doing the mirror select, etc.

i chrooted the system, and run the cd /usr/portage; scripts/bootstrap.sh

that went through fine and emerged things like glibc, ncurses, etc.

now im doing an emerge system

i have done 3 packages and now i have hit a problem

all my mirrors are getting host not found apart from one which gets connection refused.

now my question is what can i do

i dont have any text editors to edit my make.conf with different mirrors

i dont have mount to mount the cdrom to re run mirror select

i dont have umount to unmount my partitions and reboot the system safely

is there anyway to recover from this without haveing to hard reset the system?

thanx
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[dataresistance]

you could do an echo "#" > make.conf

And overwrite the make.conf file

and then write a new one using >> to add each line.

[Greylox]

I don't think you need to do anything but wait. I used emerge a couple times today now all of a sudden I can't connect to a mirror to save my life. It must a Gentoo mirror problem.
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[matt2kjones]

thanx for the echo idea....

just did it and it worked great

if anyone else is having problems, the mirror im using now is:

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/

and it works great

thanx for the help
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