Linux Gentoo Installation Stuck

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Amaresh

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Hey guys,

I'm trying to install Gentoo minimal on VMWare and I've successfully created the partitions however I'm stuck at the stage where the stage3 tarball needs to be downloaded.

The problem is that even though wget is able to resolve the URL it will not connect and it times out. I am also able to ping various hostnames without any issues. So is there anything that I could do to fix this problem ?

For instance,
wget http://mirror.itu.int/html-files.tar.gz
--09:53:43-- http://mirror.itu.int/html-files.tar.gz
=> `html-files.tar.gz'
Resolving mirror.itu.int... 156.106.192.159
Connecting to mirror.itu.int|156.106.192.159|:80...
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And then it just times out.

Thanks in advance!
 
Are you able to download or at least connect to that mirror domain in working OS/browser? If you are running torrents in background disable anything else that might be hogging the net... try another mirror for stage3?
 
I've tried several mirrors and several files - wget will not work. I've tried those URL's in Windows and they work.

I can also ping those mirrors on Gentoo, but wget gets stuck at connecting to the server even though it can resolve it.
 
ok do you have a DSL modem? are you using DHCP or Static IP (internal)? Whether DHCP or Static make sure your gateway is set to the correct value (im not familiar with gentoo install/config steps)...

Post the output of following 2 commands:

"ifconfig -a" and "ip route show"...
 
you can check your gentoo config files (like /etc/rc.conf for my arch install) for gateway setting...

assuming your ethernet interface is 'eth0' and gateway (router/modem) is 192.168.1.1 and you can ping it then update /etc/rc.conf with this info

also, as root, try running " route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 " in console then try the stage3 step again...
 
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