Re: Stuck at stage 2 going onto 3

Brad,

I'm not 100% on this since you're so early in the install process. But the
standard answer is:

Try using wget to retrieve the file. Place the file in the
"/usr/portage/distfiles" directory. Emerge checks this location before
attempting to download.

Mark

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:07:25 -0700 "Hutchins, Brad" <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>  /* Style Definitions */ 
>  table.MsoNormalTable
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> 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
> 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
> 	mso-style-noshow:yes;
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> 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
> 	mso-para-margin:0in;
> 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
> 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
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> Just finished compiling stage 1 last night and
> I had gotten
> to Step 22:
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>         #
> export
> CONFIG_PROTECT=""       
> # emerge --pretend
> system       
> # emerge system
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> The system checked for all dependencies and
> attempted to download
> from:
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> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/<a
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href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/zlib-1.1.4.tar.bz2">zlib-1.1.4.tar.bz2</a>
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> And failed to retrieve it.  Emerge
> attempted to retrieve the same
> file from a different site but also
> failed.  I went to the site VIA a browser
> on an
> XP machine to confirm the link and that I could
> download the file.  I jumped out of BASH
> to the main root to
> perform ping tests to make sure my NIC and
> TCP/IP stack was Ok, and they were.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Brad