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dr_rude
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 Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: gentoo-sources |
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Good day,
I tried hard to install gentoo into my Toshiba satellite laptop. I'm facing some problems connecting to mirrors nearby when i tried to emerge gentoo-sources. Everything went fine, but when i reached step no 7[configuring the kernel]. My questions is there any way to emerge gentoo-sources without internet connection? Or where is the fastest mirrors around? I still can't connecting to the mirrors for almost 3 days.
If i have to download the files [gentoo-sources] first and store it somewhere [let's say in my thumb drive] how can i emerge it during my installations?
help me plz. |
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Mos
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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When you emerge the genkernel it does two things:
- download the kernel from kernel.org (or a mirror, I don't know)
- download some patches from the gentoo mirror.
If the first step fails you can always try to download the +-30MB file manually from www.kernel.org or one or its mirrors, and have to put the file into /usr/portage/distfiles, then try emerge gentoo-sources again.
But even then, you will still have to download some patches, coming from your gentoo-mirror.
It seems weird to me you cannot contact it through portage, so you're probably suffering another problem. Are you having other connectivity problems as well?
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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tq mos.
my connection is good. there's no problem at all. arite i try it again. |
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gesiel
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| Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: gentoo-sources |
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Hi dr_rude,
the manual recommends:
| Code: | | mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf |
but don't do that! In some cases mirrorselect choice URLs with low speed or deprecated.
Make:
1) open mirrors list:
| Code: | | links2 http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml |
2) it enters in several mirrors and it sees which is fastest to load the folder /destfiles. It writes 4 or 5.
3) open the /etc/make.conf and put an line:
| Code: | | GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo/" |
this is an example.
Ok, its must be works ok. |
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 12:00 am Post subject: |
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gesiel,
i do not do the mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf as the manual recommends.
i edited manually make.conf file and enter the nearest mirrors as a content for GENTOO_MIRRORS variables.
i still can't get thru from here. 
any ideas? i really need to learn tis gentoo! |
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gesiel
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 12:46 am Post subject: |
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i'm surfing thru dsl.
i'll try to use your preffered mirrors. wish me luck tis time!  |
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You don't have to use his preferred mirrors... What's your location? Does ping work? Try 'ping ophidian.be' and 'ping gearbox.be' and 'ping gonda.exigo.ch'  |
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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still no luck. 
wat am i doing wrong? can i see someone make.conf file? |
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sneez
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 12:10 am Post subject: |
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I have the same problem, im installing from 2005 universal CD and i do not have a network connection!
What can i do to emerge the kernel?
any help ? |
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taurus
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| sneez wrote: | I have the same problem, im installing from 2005 universal CD and i do not have a network connection!
What can i do to emerge the kernel?
any help ? |
Just forget about the kernel for a second. You first need to get your network working. Are you currently connected to a network but somehow can't get out or your computer is completely by itself? Otherwise, you can always use another computer to download the kernel and copy it to your computer... |
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sneez
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 1:01 am Post subject: |
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I dont know if my card is supported (atheros AR5212 chipset ) . WHen is do lspci it shows it in listing but i cannot make it work.
I do have a fedora core 2 installed on other partision and windows on another one.
I did try to download the kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3 and copy it into /usr/portage/distfiles/ and than run emerge gentoo-sources , but it still tries to connect to the internet.
WHen i do PKGDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles/ and then try to emerge it says that i need to adjust PKGDIR .....
When i try to emerge with full path ie: emerge /usr/portage/distfiles/gentoo-sources-2.6..... it says that the path is broken...
i do not know what to try next ? |
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:52 am Post subject: |
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Is it a wireless network chipset? If true, try emerging the madwifi-driver
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:59 am Post subject: |
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yup i downloaded the kernel gentoo-sources n try to emerge it.
again i can't connect the mirrors nearby. when i tried to ping, it's ok.
why?
i guess my connections is not configured very well.
i can downloaded the portage snapshots for the previous steps and stuck here for almost 5 days.
i'm wave thru DSL with DHCP. Guide me plz. |
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:08 am Post subject: |
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What do you have in your /etc/make.conf?
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sneez
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Yes its wireless, how can i emerge madwifi if i need a kernell to do it ?
Im just confused. Im chrooted into /bin/bash and no kernel. |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| dr_rude wrote: | yup i downloaded the kernel gentoo-sources n try to emerge it.
again i can't connect the mirrors nearby. when i tried to ping, it's ok.
why?
i guess my connections is not configured very well.
i can downloaded the portage snapshots for the previous steps and stuck here for almost 5 days.
i'm wave thru DSL with DHCP. Guide me plz. |
Did you do the ping BEFORE or AFTER you chrooted?
Because it's quite possible that you forgot to run "cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf"
Without that file you will never (and I mean never) be able to get to a website/url by name rather than IP. |
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:16 am Post subject: |
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i did run the "cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf"
and ping after the chroot. |
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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arite tis is my make.conf file looks like:-
CFLAGS="-02 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mymirrors.asiaosc.org/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
i'm using stage3 installations.
note:- i'm adding the GENTOO_MIRRORS manually at make.conf after failed to use "mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf" command. the errors saying :-
downloading a list of mirrors...
unable to fetch a valid list of mirrors, update failed.
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure you have mounted with the -o bind option both /dev and /proc before chrooting into your gentoo install?
Can you ping these mirrors if you are outside of your chroot?
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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i can ping very well outside of chroot.
i issued tis cmd before chrooting :-
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
wat is the -o option? |
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| dr_rude wrote: | i can ping very well outside of chroot.
i issued tis cmd before chrooting :-
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
wat is the -o option? |
The -o bind is another way of mounting it.
If your resolv.conf is correct, you can ping outside the chrooted environment and not inside it, I just can't think of other problems that may cause this issue.
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dr_rude
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| Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i can ping outside the chrooted env and not inside the chrooted env. |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:08 am Post subject: |
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| dr_rude wrote: | | i can ping outside the chrooted env and not inside the chrooted env. |
Make sure you've copied resolv.conf over to the chroot as resolv.conf and not resolve.conf
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| dr_rude wrote: | | CFLAGS="-02 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" |
Change the numeral 0 into a capital letter o, an O that is instead of a 0.
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