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This was taken straight from Thomas Beaudry message to John Hinsley. |
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Instead of getting the stage 1 iso, get the tarball. boot into an |
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existing |
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linux, extract the tarball to a directory, start your ppp connection as |
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you |
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normally would and chroot into the directory containing gentoo. now you |
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can |
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just continue with the install like everyone else. |
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oops, make sure that directory that you put gentoo into is an empty |
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partion. |
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it'll be your gentoo root partition when you are finished. |
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On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 13:42, matthew@×××××××.nz wrote: |
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> Hi, I was looking through the installation instructions, and it seems that Gentoo expects your computer to be connected to a |
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> network with an Internet gateway running for the initial install/setup. |
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> 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 :-) |
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> (I can download and burn the ISO at work, but the PC I'll be installing it on is at home.) |
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> It's a bog standard General Robotics external modem that's worked happily used with Mandrake in the past. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Matt. |
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