Re: [gentoo-dev] installation problems

[Thomas M. Beaudry]

Geoffrey Finch wrote:
> Is there anyway to setup dial up during the live-cd install process. If
> not, what is the best way for someone without access to broadband to get
> all the packages needed to bootstrap? The current situation I have is
> that I created the partitions, been doing things step by step off the
> website, I got as far as emerge sync, which needed the portage tree, I
> downloaded and burned the portage tarball, extracted it into /usr, then
> ran the scripts/bootstrap.sh about halfway through that process, it
> began looking for baselayout files, and began a reattempt at downloading
> more files. of course it can't because I'm only on dial-up and haven't
> configured dialup, I looked at a few faqs and how-to's on dialup, but
> the dial-up modules are not active for me to use, so as far as I know, I
> can't download anything during the process due to lack of ppp. Any help
> would be greatly appeciated, if there's any extra instructions(extra
> tarballs to download, and where to put them) I would really appreciate
> it, I want to break into linux, and I want it to be gentoo.

I haven't tried this but I believe this is what others have mentioned
doing:

1.  Download the ppp ebuild and save it someplace you can get at.
2.  Once you're in the chroot environment, put the ppp ebuild into
     /usr/portage/distfiles.
3.  emerge ppp
4.  Configure ppp and connect to the 'Net.
5.  Continue with your installation.


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Thomas M. Beaudry
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