[Sussex] gentoo is cool.

[Gareth Ablett]

> 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/cabex
tract-
> 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.
> 
> 
> "ok, ya dirty punk, ya better do as I shay shee! cause I'm da boss
> shee 'yeah he's da boss' yeah! do as I shay or the fat lady gets it!".
> 

you will need to setup PPP manually I found a document on the internet
to help me with this but I cant remember the URL so if you go a Google
for PPP setup you will probably be on the rite road.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

ITP Services Ltd.
http://www.itpserve.co.uk/

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