Richard Verwayen <holle@ackw.de> writes:

> Hello to all!
>
> I just tried a mirrorselect because my favourite gentoo mirror is down but
> unfortunately I was so stupid to overwrite my whole /etc/make.conf. Is
> there a way to get the generic one back without booting from CD?

That file is installed by the 'portage' port. You can re-emerge
portage if emerge will work without make.conf, otherwise I would
try making a copy of /etc/make.globals and name it make.conf just
to get portage re-emerged. Then of course run etc-update to get
the generic make.conf back again.

You will need to regenerate your 'USE' flags in make.conf also.
I recommend the 'ufed' port for that purpose.