Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing over dial up

The livecd images at http://gentoo.org/~christoph support dialup and pppoe
connections. Download one of them.

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 matthew@×××××××.nz wrote:

> Hi, I was looking through the installation instructions, and it seems that Gentoo expects your computer to be connected to a
> network with an Internet gateway running for the initial install/setup.
>
> Does Gentoo allow you to use a modem to download the packages?  I'm a humble home user with only 56K dial up you see :-)
> (I can download and burn the ISO at work, but the PC I'll be installing it on is at home.)
>
> It's a bog standard General Robotics external modem that's worked happily used with Mandrake in the past.
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