[GenToo] Non-network install

[Tim Wunder]

*Sorry to interrupt the political discussion with a continuence of a 
linux thread, but...*

Where I went wrong was trying to emerge gentooo-sources. I changed that 
to vanilla-sources and the install proceeded from there (after resolving 
the issue of the live CD having kernel version 2.4.24 while emerge 
wanted to install 2.4.25. #gentoo on IRC had the answer.)
My kernel's compiled, next step is a bootloader and I can attempt to 
boot from the newly installed gentoo partition. That's not a project for 
tonight, however, sleep beckons.

Thanks, Alma, Tom,
Tim

On 3/9/2004 1:42 AM, I believe that Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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.)
>>>
> 
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