[Sussex] Gentoo Network Problems

[Stephen Williams]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 05:16 +0100, John D. wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I was following the instructions to do a stage 3 install without a 
> network connection, as I wanted to initially use the binary GRP packages 
> from "disc 2".
> 
> The problem is that some of my efforts to get stuff installed from the 
> second disc are throwing up "Temporary loss of name resolution" type 
> errors. Why that should be is a complete mystery. The packages are 
> supposed to be on the disc!

If you're doing an install using the Universal Install CD and installing
packages from the packages CD (also known as a GRP install), you need to
follow this link on how to set up the 2nd CD:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.1/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=11#doc_chap2

I suspect The name resolution problem occurs because there are internet
repositories listed in your /etc/make.conf file. Look for something
like:

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://

in your /etc/make.conf file. Comment this line out.

If you are going to be doing a lot of installing of packages from the
packages disk, you might edit the line beginning:


#PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages

to look like:

PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/packages"

So when you run emerge --usepkg, portage should look in these locations
for your binary packages.

Remember you'll need to mount your CD-ROM first.

Steve W.


> 
> It appears that I can ping Clares laptop plugged to the network, but any 
> external sources are failing.
> 
> It seems that things look OK in the /etc/conf.d/net file (i.e. the IPs 
> for the pc, netmask and gateway are all shown) and the /etc/resolv.conf 
> is showing my ISP's nameserver (the only thing I'm a little confused 
> about is the exact format i.e. is it capitialised word nameserver or 
> lower case, is ther brackets round the numbers, are they quoted etc etc) 
> looks OK AFAIK!
> 
> What do I need to look at next please ??



> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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