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Dont see why not: build a minimal system on another machine and tar it |
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across to the new one, or install from a stage 3 tarball (isnt that on |
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the livecd these days for non-network building anyway?), add the modem |
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stuff and rebuild when convenient. |
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BillK |
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On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:22, Henti Smith wrote: |
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> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:00:01 +0200 |
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> "Yavor Goulishev" <yavor.goulishev@××××××.bg> wrote: |
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> > Hi Henti, |
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> > You should brake this circle causing the chicken egg problem ;-)). |
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> > The solution is to have a machine with internet connection. |
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> > Never mind what OS. Use this machine to download the modem module source. |
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> > Then copy the source on the gentoo machine in the $DISTDIR directory. |
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> > Now you will be able to emerge and configure the modem module. |
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> Thats what I'm trying. |
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> I have machines here at office with net connection. |
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> the only way I can get the ebuild to work is to havea functional |
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> portage directory. |
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> I can tar up the current one on machine and copy to new install machine and do it that way. |
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> just copying the source and running emerge as you suggested won't help, since you need a net connection |
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> to emerge rsync to create a portage tree. |
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> I also don't have a CD writer to cut a CD with to transport from machine on net to machine at home. |
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> the only way is to download on net machine and remove hdd and take to home machine which I cannot do either because it's |
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> a functional server. I don't have machines I can switch off. |
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> I have asked in a mail to user list regarding the same problem if there is a way to compile the module for the driver |
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> on a machine for the liveCD as this would be smaller and more portable "32 MB usb drive" or something I can arrange. |
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> but would be so much easer to have a repostry of liveCD modules that are not on the CD. (tho personally I think the liveCD |
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> should have all possible modules included. |
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> I'll find a way to do this .. but it is a mission and a pain. |
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> Henti |
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