Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing over dial up

[Thomas Beaudry]

And I'm going to do it again this weekend with the stage 3 1.3b
tarball.  I'll keep detailed notes this time with an eye to it
being added as a sidebar to the installation instructions.


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