[plug] gentoo progress

[WolfBite]

Current portage size 9G and growing :)
(3 desktops 1 laptop)
 
leave compiling for when I goto bed and/or when I goto work.
 
feels like my computers doing something while i'm away from it now :))  

William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
Hi Jim, I built some 40 packages on a system (big update) this afternoon
with no problems. There are a number of causes I have seen for what you
seem to have experienced:

1. the servers are busy (rare, even with a new release which has just
happened a couple of days ago)

2. wrong choice of the mirror and FETCHCOMMAND in make.conf (have you
used "mirrorselect"

3. planetmirror sucks - dont use it.

4. server maintenance - it does happen, and sometimes you get a
coincidence of multiple outages that affects the fallbacks.

Instead of a spare harddisk, I use a small 4G partition (easy with
todays 200G drives) with a small basic gentoo install. I update through
a chroot (just like when doing the original install!), and occasionally
test boot it to make sure it still works.

BillK


On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 17:39 +0800, Jim Householder wrote:
> Success!
> 
> This is sent from my gentoo system using Mozilla to access my webmail.
> I had to stop the network connection so I could emerge mozilla from
> the DVD. emerge kept connecting to various sites and then coming
> back with '404 not found' errors. Took all afternoon to build, but I
> got there.
> 
> It's nice to have a spare hard disk. Replace the normal drive and
> it's like you have a spare computer to play with, without stuffing up
> the system normally worked on.
> 
> Sorry this is not in the previous thread, but I usually use Firefox
> on different hardware...
> 
> Jim
> 
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