i've been spending the better part of the day installing gentoo@home.
i wanted to scrap my current gentoo install which uses reiserfs because i've been having problems with it. i use this box as a backup/file server. i upload all my os x dmg (disk image files) to linux. i upload videos and music there as well. so its typical to find 100MB to 2GB files.
reseirfs corrupted one of those files.
i wanted to switch to jfs.
no i have a gentoo livecd of amd64. i wanted to use the binary packages. no big right? should be a straight forward process. in my opinion should take bout an hour. 2 at the most.
i started at 8am. its now 3pm. i've hacked my way through the installed partition because the livecd install failed to compile the kernel.
no big, right? its also easy to recover... chroot to the partition and run emerge from there to build the broken packages.
what typically shouldn't be a major problem has turned to a disaster.
rsync keeps failing.
now i can't seem to install the pppoe daemon which is required to connect to the adsl because my rsync keeps failing (equivalent to update repository sa ubuntu). this box also serves as my router see, why i need pppoe.
what the bloody heck is wrong!?!
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