[Sussex] gentoo is cool.

[Angelo Servini]

Hello Tony,

Sunday, October 26, 2003, 7:17:12 PM, you wrote:

> Angelo

>>      When I do an   emerge -k packagename    gentoo attempts to grab
>>      everything from internet connections; ok fair enough, but I
>>      thought that -k was supposed to grab binaries?.  I tried -K
>>      and that seems to point to the fact that it cannot find those
>>      binaries.. if so why?
>>
>>      I did do the following ok after mounting the cd, im sure of it:
>>
>>        cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/

> According to a little test that I have just done maybe your .tbz files
> should be in

> /usr/portage/packages/All

Thanks Tony, I may be aware of whats happening now.

Sorry fellas (doh! Im so dumb!), I had a look at what was happening

# emerge -k xfree
Calculating dependencies    ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 2) app-arch/cabextract-0.6 to /
>>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/cabextract-0.6.tar.gz
>>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/cabextract-0.6.tar.gz
>>> Downloading http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/downloads/cabextract-0.6.tar.gz
!!! Couldn't download cabextract-0.6.tar.gz. Aborting.

as I have not set up an internet connection yet, and cabextract-0.6.tar.gz
is not present in the /usr/portage/packages  gentoo tries to download
it.

Now that brings to mind yet another problem!

the installation instructions tell broadly how to set up your network

# ifconfig $IFACE $IPNUM broadcast $BCAST netmask $NMASK
# route add -net default gw $GATEWAY netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 $IFACE

and, I currently have a standard 56k modem connection (I will get
broadband in January).  but for now I need to connect, if I want xfree
and all the other goodies.  but I have now hit a wall, as I dont know
what to put in the place of $IFACE, $IPNUM, $BCAST, $NMASK and
$GATEWAY

the /etc/resolv.conf file needs to be modified:

domain mydomain.com     <-- what do I put here?
nameserver 10.0.0.1     <-- what do I put here?
nameserver 10.0.0.2     <-- what do I put here?

big breath.... sigh...

also...

where do I put the other stuff like my freeserve username and password
and the dialup phone number?  modem type and so on?

help!

regards Angelo.


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