emerge problem installing without network

ceronman · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 1

Excuse me for my bad English

Hi,

Im a newbie from Mandrake, I'm trying to install Gentoo 2004.0 without network, using the universal-livcd and the packages-cd. I have installed the portage snapshot and the distfiles from the universal-livcd but when i try to install the kernel sources using "emerge gentoo-sources" (or any other sources), emerge try to connect to internet and say that can't download the package. I have tried with --usepkg option, but does not work. What can i do?

Thanks for the help

Manuel Alejandro Cerón

Beattie · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 155

You can probably just manually copy the package from the cd to /usr/portage/distfiles. It will check if the package it wants to download is there before it tries to actually go on the internet.

andrewy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 602

I know in 2004.0 you could do something along the lines of "emerge =vanilla-sources-2.4.24", you might be able to do that in 2004.1. Just try replacing 2.4.24 with the kernel version included in 2004.1, probably either .25 or .26. That might work with gentoo-sources if you know the version, I'm not sure, cause I haven't tried it.

enegento · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:05 pm Post subject: what I did