As Mike pointed out, there is a Fetching files section in /etc/make.conf (/etc/make.conf.example)
I think that adding this to /etc/make.conf will do the trick: FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --proxy-user=spsingh --proxy-passwd=passwd --passive-ftp \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 --proxy-user=spsingh --proxy-passwd=passwd --passive-ftp \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}" Ohhh and you would also need export ftp_proxy="..." Sorry for posting this 'spoiler' of Mike's hint, but i think that it'll be better for Sumeet to know exactly what to do when he'll try installing gentoo again. -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list