[gentoo] installation

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:20:42 +0800
"m.w.chang" <mwchang at mail.hongkong.com> wrote:

> here
> 
> Code listing 9.2: Getting ready for GRP
> 
> # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/GRP
> # mount -o bind /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/packages /mnt/gentoo/GRP
> 
> hmm... maybe I need to read something on the anotomy of the gentoo
> distribution. I possibly missed a few pages in the user guide.
> 
> > I do not know what GRP is. In what context have you read this?
> 
> I supposed if I use stage3 from the LiveCD, nothing needs to be
> downloaded from the net, right?

I did not use the live cd. It has, I think, some gaming on it and is 'live'
so you can run the game without doing an install. I just used the regular
gentoo 1.4 rc2 install image.

> If I do everything from source codes (ie, everything pulled from net),
> the installation process may take a whole day if not more. I would also
> need a spare machine with a reliable ISP for that. That's comparable to
> the effort involved in linuxfromscratch...

Why a spare machine? The network set up in the gentoo install is fine.
At least if you are using ethernet. I do not know about modems. Does the
gentoo network work for you?

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