Anyway to bypass a hanging mirror during an emerge?

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Nitsuj · Post by **Nitsuj** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:33 am

I'm in the process of installing drivers for my video card, but it's taken well over 2 hours to download the files, which only 20mb, because the first mirror on the list is down (gentoo.eliteitminds.com) it attempts to connect to the server and takes 15 minutes to time out, on top of that it retries 5 times before going to another mirror. Is there anyway I can bypass the first mirror and go to the next mirror on the list?

note: This isn't from an actual Gentoo installation, rather in the prcoess of installing Gentoo from the LiveCD.

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:51 am

Edit /etc/make.conf

Make it so one of the other mirrors in the list is the first one.

Nitsuj · Post by **Nitsuj** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:59 am

slycordinator wrote:Edit /etc/make.conf

Make it so one of the other mirrors in the list is the first one.

How do I do that while it's in the middle of DLing, as theres no prompt?

30726 · Post by **30726** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:12 am

Ctrl+Alt+F? (replace the ? with 2,3,4...)

Use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch back to your first login, and Ctrl+Alt+F? (the number you used) to go back to the other login.

Deathwing00 · Post by **Deathwing00** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:03 am

I would also recommend to use often the

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# mirrorselect

command to update the list of mirrors and have it automatically select the most appropiate for the user.

jkt · Post by **jkt** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:40 am

press control+c, this will abort the download process, update /etc/make.conf and run emerge again with same parameters; it'll resume all your downloads.

rewt · Post by **rewt** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:53 am

Why

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ctrl + c

when you can

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ctrl + z

Make the change then

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fg

and carry on

This way you don't suffer any compile loss & recompile
Or change console like tln said

Deathwing00 · Post by **Deathwing00** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:58 am

rewt wrote:Why
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ctrl + c
when you can
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ctrl + z
Make the change then
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fg
and carry on
This way you don't suffer any compile loss & recompile
Or change console like tln said

Are you sure you don't need to send the SIGHUP signal to reload the configuration files?

jkt · Post by **jkt** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:09 pm

ctrl+c in the middle of download is afaik safe

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:24 pm

Doing cntrl-c works in most cases but not in bootstrap. If you hit cntrl-c during bootstrap then restart it, it will fail.

At least it did with me.

jkt · Post by **jkt** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 1:43 pm

sure, but how often are you bootstrapping? btw, `bootsrtap.sh --fetchonly` is your friend

I was talking about interrupt in the middle of download.

slycordinator · Post by **slycordinator** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:03 pm

jkt wrote:sure, but how often are you bootstrapping? btw, `bootsrtap.sh --fetchonly` is your friend I was talking about interrupt in the middle of download.

Well it depends on how many times it takes you to be able to figure out the difficult installation method for this OS. I would screw something up and start over. But that's how I learned as well...