[GenToo] Non-network install

[Alma J Wetzker]

You will need to copy several packages to your $packagedir.  Use the '-k' 
option on emerge to only use packages in your $packagedir.  Setup your 
/etc/make.conf and you should be good to go.

Tom Jandl wrote:
> I build my Gentoo boxes from stage 1 which compiles everything from
> source, so this is just an educated guess after a quick read of the
> docs. CD one should have three different tar balls on it, stages 1, 2,
> and 3. While booted to the live CD, partition and format the disk on the
> laptop. Then copy the stage three tarball to the disk & unpack it. CD 1
> should have a choice of kernels to also copy to the laptop. That (plus a
> bootloader) should give you a bootable basic system from precompiled
> packages. Boot the laptop from the new system, then mount the second CD
> to install the rest of the precompiled packages. Everybody feel free to
> jump in if I missed something important! 
> Now that I have seen the power and ease of Gentoo's portage system, I
> will never again experience RPM hell. On a KDE system, just type in two
> words before bed: "emerge Evolution". The next morning awake to
> Evolution and it's many dependencies freshly compiled from source and
> ready to use. It doesn't get any better than this.
> 
> Do not let the installation part ruin your fun. Your next install will
> be a piece of cake.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:33, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>>OK, Gentoo lovers, help me out here.
>>I downloaded the live-cd install ISO and the disk 2 packages.
>>The install-x86-universal-2004.0.iso image from:
>>ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/livecd/universal/
>>and  the packages-pentium4-2004.0.iso image from:
>>ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.0/livecd/pentium4/
>>I'm trying to do a non-network install, cuz, well, cuz I'm upstairs and 
>>the install CD won't configure my wireless card in my R40 laptop and I 
>>don't feel like going downstairs, finding a network cable and wiring 
>>myself to the internet (out of sheer, unadulterated laziness.)
>>
>>Now the documentation tells me that I can do a non-network install, but 
>>I have to set an environment variable, $PKGDIR, and use emerge --usepkg 
>><blah, blah>.
>>
>>Unfortunately, I can't get this to work. Not only doesn't the 
>>documentation tell you *what* you're supposed to set the env var to, all 
>>the directories I tried (sorry, didn't write them down) didn't work. Any 
>>ideas what I'm s'posed to use? Do I need to give up and wire myself to 
>>the Internet to install this POS^k^k^kfine linux distribution?
>>
>>I can't imagine that the required kernel sources are on the second CD, 
>>'cuz I can't get anything off of there (the install is run from the 
>>live-CD so I can't unmount it to mount the second CD.)
>>