To cut a long story short it looks like the notorious ipv6 problem - wherein mirrorselect choses ipv6 mirrors (because ipv6 is enabled on the boot cd) but your chroot does not use ipv6.
Find a mirror near you and put it in /etc/make.conf manually (within the chroot), the mirror list is easy to find off the main gentoo.org page. If that doesn't work use emerge-webrsync - once you have done that you have enough to complete the install, you don't need to emerge --sync after emerge-webrsync. On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:49 -0500, Robert G. Hays wrote: > Gentoo universal CD + packages CD, 2004.3 > > By-the-book, literally -- I printed it and punched it into binder ! > > Note that I am typing & sending this in Windows, thus some data may be > off a *little*, since Gentoo doesn't work. > > > ------------- > stage 1 install : > ------------- > > Tried mirrorselect -a & -i, both: with & without -bX > > emerge --sync only finds raven, raptor, heron, hawk, crane, & cockatoo > servers, no matter what. > First server hit in a given run gets to about app-admin/?/io.c, at which > point it gives code 30 at line 109 & code 12 at line 189 and times out, > follow-on servers give nothing except list-of-files. > > emerge-webrsync finds one server, I forget which. Says no md5's > available at all, and quits. > > > ------------- > stage 3 install : > ------------- > > same, even after I 'select with -o -i & -b10, picking ~12 *new* servers > & retrying ~11 times. > (Yes I mean that 'emerge --sync' hits the same 6 servers, or rather 4 of > them per run, ignoring the servers I selected, or, retrying 11 times, -a > -s12, recycles through same old 6.) > > emerge-webrsync finally found a server *I* told it to find, apparently > worked, but... emerge --sync performed per previous paragraph, except > different files fetched, still the "io.c" errors above. > > ... > > Rebooted to hdisk. > > Still can't get anything else, except one-at-a-time, and that has trouble. > > Can compile bzImage, can NOT compile modules without crash; seg-fault in > various files, kernel panic in others. > > (SuSE 9.0 on target drive for ~10 months can compile anything, far more > in a row than required to crash Gentoo-compiles, but oldconfig-bzImage > does not match booted kernel, thus I will NOT patch-&c. Otherwise, SuSE > runs fine, always, no matter what the load.) > > And yes I dotted all the 'i's that I know of, in all above; 20+ years > programming and everything else; I *do* know how to RTFM & *follow* it. > > > ------------- > Hardware &c......: > ------------- > > Shuttle AN35N 400 Ultra+MCP mobo w/nVidia nForce2 chip ~6 months old. > Never gets over ~45c. > > AMD XP 2700+, never gets over 51C, and that only once -- otherwise never > over 47c. > > NO over-/under- -clock/-voltage. > > 1GB Centon RAM, as 512+256+256. www.simmtester.com for 12 hours no > errors, repeatedly. > > Maxtor 30G hda. (Testing hd; will only fornicate with 'real' 120G when > all works RIGHT.) > > ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 video 128MB, AGP8 > > Sound Blaster Live Value PCI > > 3Com '3c59x' NIC, PCI > > On-board Realtek sound & nic both turned off. > > All BIOS parms set for precisely what I have. Precisely. > ------------- > Netgear RP114 (updated) router between nic & Westell modem to phone-co > (bellsouth) DSL 1.5m/256k. > ------------- > Drive-parts: > 1) 512M dos > 2) 200M linux boot > 3) ~5.5G Win98/f32 > 4) (extended) > 5) 1G unused limux (all-in-one) > 6) 15M hidden dos > 7) 15M dos > 8) ~1G f32 > 9) ~1G f32 > 10) 1G swap > 11) linux /, to end of drive; ~~20G. > grub in 2). > ------------- > Partitions & router are NOT negotiable! > > I NEED correct ATI drivers to get *ALL* functionality avail on video card. > I NEED Win4Lin (for W98se under linux to solve native-mode issues). > I intend other things, but these two are NOT negotiable, or else I'll > just have to keep running Wunnerful-Hic!-Winders98SE-HIC!!. > > **POSSIBLE** that the 30G hd is bad, but I doubt, rest of machine is as > solid as a planet. > > Why crashes & ignoring selected servers? > > PLEASE help! > > Thank you, > Robert G. Hays > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
