"emerge gentoo-sources" ... having problems installing Gentoo

I am on step 7b in this installation process, and when I give it the command "emerge gentoo-sources" it goes and says that it is downloading the file from the path that I had earlier specified in my make.conf file.

Next line down, it tells me "error parsing proxy URL http://proxy.server.com:port: bad poirt number" then quits. What is the deal? What is this about a proxy? I am not behind a proxy, and I was able to ping other sources, so my connection is fine.

I hope I dont have to restart this installation, because I don't know what I did wrong. Anyone have any tips?

By the way, this is on a Pentium M 730 laptop, and all; drivers were detected. Thanks!

You probably have a line in your make.conf like this:


If so you need to delete it. The other thing you may have done is used the command:


To fix this try this:

Flamed_Chip said:

To fix this try this:

Code:

http_proxy=""

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wouldn't you also have to export that?

Yup, edited, Thanks...

You are the man! THank's much, I appreciate it. I had to run this coimmand "export http_proxy="" " to fix it, and now it's downloading.

Ok, I am having this problem some more, now on step 9 where I install System Tools, such as thye system logger. I give it this command:

"emerge syslog-ng"

and it tells me the same thing as above, about the bad port, but then it keeps going and it searches for the fiel, but it gives me a 404 not found error. The same happened when installing Cron Daemon and the File indexing util.

I was able to ping Google, so I have valid connectivity. I have no way of getting into my make.conf file (not sure why), but I tried to export http_proxy="" with no results.

Anyone have any ideas here? I am totally stumped. Thanks again.

bump, anyone?

I don't see why you ever had to specify the path in your source file. Can't you just use mirrorselect to choose a mirror?

Stupid Boy said:

I don't see why you ever had to specify the path in your source file. Can't you just use mirrorselect to choose a mirror?

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I could have used mirror select, but I just put it in there manually since I was already editing the file.

I ended up restarting the install, and it works fine now.