[gentoo-dev] Installation Pb with adsl modem

[John Stalker]

>Any plan to include a way to install gentoo with an
>adsl usb modem ?

There already is a way.  I installed over adsl--it wasn't usb but some
other devices were.  If you have another distribution installed in
another partition and are using a 2.4 kernel it is pretty easy.
If not it is still possible, but not easy.  The basic idea is
to set up your partitions from the other distribution as in step
5 of the CD-ROM install instructions, and mount them, as in step 6.
You can skip step 7.  Then follow steps 8 through 12.  Instead of
copying the build image from /mnt/cdrom/build-*.tbz2 you will
need to download it off the net.  Once you chroot in step 8
you are in your new root partition, but you are still using
your old kernel and should have your old network interfaces
still up and running, or at least I did.  In step 13 when you
install additional packages, install and configure rp-pppoe.
Then go on to steps 14 and 15 and try to boot your new system.
You will probably want to make sure adsl-start is somewhere in
you init scripts once you make sure it works.  I never installed
of the CD, but I think this way is actually easier!

ps: obviously you will want to configure your kernel with PPP and
USB support.


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John Stalker
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Princeton University
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