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Geoffrey Finch wrote: |
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> Is there anyway to setup dial up during the live-cd install process. If |
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> not, what is the best way for someone without access to broadband to get |
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> all the packages needed to bootstrap? The current situation I have is |
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> that I created the partitions, been doing things step by step off the |
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> website, I got as far as emerge sync, which needed the portage tree, I |
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> downloaded and burned the portage tarball, extracted it into /usr, then |
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> ran the scripts/bootstrap.sh about halfway through that process, it |
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> began looking for baselayout files, and began a reattempt at downloading |
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> more files. of course it can't because I'm only on dial-up and haven't |
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> configured dialup, I looked at a few faqs and how-to's on dialup, but |
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> the dial-up modules are not active for me to use, so as far as I know, I |
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> can't download anything during the process due to lack of ppp. Any help |
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> would be greatly appeciated, if there's any extra instructions(extra |
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> tarballs to download, and where to put them) I would really appreciate |
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> it, I want to break into linux, and I want it to be gentoo. |
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I haven't tried this but I believe this is what others have mentioned |
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doing: |
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1. Download the ppp ebuild and save it someplace you can get at. |
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2. Once you're in the chroot environment, put the ppp ebuild into |
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/usr/portage/distfiles. |
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3. emerge ppp |
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4. Configure ppp and connect to the 'Net. |
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5. Continue with your installation. |
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Thomas M. Beaudry |
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k8la / ys1ztm |