<DIV>Current portage size 9G and growing :)</DIV>
<DIV>(3 desktops 1 laptop)</DIV>
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<DIV>leave compiling for when I goto bed and/or when I goto work.</DIV>
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<DIV>feels like my computers doing something while i'm away from it now :)) <BR><BR><B><I>William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Jim, I built some 40 packages on a system (big update) this afternoon<BR>with no problems. There are a number of causes I have seen for what you<BR>seem to have experienced:<BR><BR>1. the servers are busy (rare, even with a new release which has just<BR>happened a couple of days ago)<BR><BR>2. wrong choice of the mirror and FETCHCOMMAND in make.conf (have you<BR>used "mirrorselect"<BR><BR>3. planetmirror sucks - dont use it.<BR><BR>4. server maintenance - it does happen, and sometimes you get a<BR>coincidence of multiple outages that affects the fallbacks.<BR><BR>Instead of a spare harddisk, I use a small 4G partition (easy with<BR>todays 200G drives) with a small basic gentoo install. I update through<BR>a chroot (just like when doing the original install!), and occasionally<BR>test boot it to make sure it still works.<BR><BR>BillK<BR><BR><BR>On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 17:39 +0800, Jim
Householder wrote:<BR>> Success!<BR>> <BR>> This is sent from my gentoo system using Mozilla to access my webmail.<BR>> I had to stop the network connection so I could emerge mozilla from<BR>> the DVD. emerge kept connecting to various sites and then coming<BR>> back with '404 not found' errors. Took all afternoon to build, but I<BR>> got there.<BR>> <BR>> It's nice to have a spare hard disk. Replace the normal drive and<BR>> it's like you have a spare computer to play with, without stuffing up<BR>> the system normally worked on.<BR>> <BR>> Sorry this is not in the previous thread, but I usually use Firefox<BR>> on different hardware...<BR>> <BR>> Jim<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<BR>> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<BR>> Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<BR>> <BR>-- <BR>William Kenworthy
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