New member trying to install gentoo needs help [solved]

viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

I am trying to install gentoo amd64. I am following the book, but when I get to the mirror selection section and I run mirrorselect, an error message appears that tells me to check my internet connection. The internet connection is working since I can ping and also use links. Is this a gub or I am missing something.

Thanks,

viga2

mark_alec · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:25 am Post subject:

I am not sure of the cause of that error, but it is not a fatal one as adding mirrors to /etc/make.conf is not essential. If you still want to specify mirrors, you can do so manually by choosing the mirror(s) from here and then adding it to /etc/make.conf as GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://foo http://bar"
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viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

Thanks,

how can I get the http or ftp.... for the mirror link you send me?

Thanks!https://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.html?f=14&sid=83fff360a1081206162fd032870d7386

viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

I just figure it out. By clicking on the link once I reach the destination it gives me the mirror http or ftp address.

I will continue my install.

Thanks,

viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

I have another problem.

when I USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources

I am getting this error message "Error Parsing proxy URL"

How can i solve this problem?

Thanks

viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

Trying hard with no luck. Need help. I am ready to download the kernel but when I go to emerge gentoo-sources, I am getting these:

Error parsing proxy URL http://proxy.server.com:port: Dad port number.

This should be an easy question but so far I had no luck getting help.

Thanks,

Sainted_Trousers · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 42

I'm not an expert (I've never configured proxies for a Gentoo install) but I'm willing to help.

Make sure that you don't have two URLs adjacent to each other. In other words, in your configuration
file (/etc/make.conf??), make sure you don't have, for example,

viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

Thanks,

I am following the book and I do not see a section that ask me to write Proxies in the make.conf file? In other works I do not have any
PROXIES on my make.conf file.

Is this the problem?

Thanks again.

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

Hi.

Please check if this is your problem.
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viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

jorge,

thanks,

I think I am making the same mistake.

I will try again.

viga2 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: California

Jorge,

my mirrorselect option is working know. I think by guiding me to the previous post it solved my problem.

Two new members have made the same mistake.

If you do not need a proxy do not add it. ommit step 4 in the links section before you download the stage 3 tarball.

Thanks!

Problem solved.

P.S. it took me a while to figure out how to select the mirror in mirror select. Press the space bar!

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:18 am Post subject:

I'm glad your problem is solved.
Please add [solved] to the thread title (edit first post).
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