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paxzeno
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 Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: mirrorselect problem |
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On the step 6
I issue the comand:
mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
and I get this response:
* Downloading a list of mirrors...
ERROR: Could not get mirror list. Check your internet connection.
 OMG my connection was lost? No
I made ping www.google.com and my connection remains ON
used links to acess an website, all ok...and still geting the same response from the mirrorselect.
I'm a little noob in linux ways...so be gentle 
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V0rtex
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Can you access the following URL in your web browser?
| Code: | | http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml?passthru=1 |
The XML dump there is where mirrorselect gets the list of mirrors from.
One possibility that I can think of is that if you have some sort of proxy (transparent or otherwise) somewhere along your route to gentoo.org, it may be blocking something. I am basically assuming that you aren't having any name resolution issues due to the fact that you were able to access these forums to post your message (unless you did this from a separate computer). |
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paxzeno
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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I can acccess
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml?passthru=1
using links, it's the same machine...
I don´t understand why?!
I could insert manualy the mirror into the man.conf file?
But don´t know how the code should appear.
and the
mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
is working fine  |
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V0rtex
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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The syntax for configuration is pretty simple really. It basically looks like this (only replace the servers with whichever ones you would want to use):
| Code: | | GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ " |
As you can see, just separate each of the servers by a space.
I still find it quite odd that you are able to browse that list with links but mirrorselect can't access it, but if this works for you then go ahead and just put a line like the one above into your make.conf file. |
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paxzeno
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thx a lot m8  |
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