Resuming the Bootstrap

[ravenq]

Ah Gentoo, long it's been since I have browsed thy forum... ahem, excuse me.

Just recently stuck some more memory and hard disk into my server at home so I thought I'd put Gentoo on it rather than Debian. (It's running a Cyrix 233 processor). Everything was running fine until I get to the bootstrap process. 18 hours later (yes, 18 hours!) the damn thing stopped because my brother had turned off his computer which had the internet on it and it couldn't download the required files.

Now obviously this wasn't the way I wanted this to go Is there a way to resume the bootstrapping process or do I have to start from scratch again?
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[Vanquirius]

I found a handful of related threads:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41345
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24494
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14074
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33548

Basically, there's no "official" way to resume your bootstrap, but you could try to do it manually.
According to the official documentation, "bootstrap.sh will build binutils, gcc, gettext, and glibc, rebuilding gettext after glibc.". Say you stop your bootstrap after glibc. You could try to just do emerge gettext. Just remember to re-edit your make.conf, as it gets renamed during the bootstrap process (to /etc/make.conf.build I believe?).
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[ravenq]

Just found another thread which was also useful. I'm rerunning the bootstrap however I've done bootstrap -f first to make sure that everything is downloaded. This way it doesn't matter whether the connection is there or not, I just let it go.
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