Can not emerge a kernel using networkless install

gpeacock

Everything was fine until

emerge gentoo-dev-sources

If calculated dependencies and then when to the internet to find them. Of course if failed with my networkless install. How do I get it to pull the kernel from the liveCD? I tried emerge gentoo-sources with the same result. Did I miss something to tell emerge to get info from the CD instead of from the internet?

Seems similar to this old thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=198965

RobMcM · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject:

Have you tried copying the required files from the CD into the /usr/portage/distfiles directory, or setting the variables in make.conf to tell portage where else to look (PKGDIR ?)
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gpeacock · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

I got through

cp /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/

and it went on and on, so I assume it was successful. How can I check if it copied the file I need?

Please tell me more about how to tell portage where to look. I am baffled, and really don't feel comfortable getting away from the standard install at this point...

Fiserfiter · n00b Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 15

I have the same problem. In the distfiles folder on the Universal-live-CD I can´t find gentoo-dev-sources. It is only a file named linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2, which you can´t install with emerge. I think we must install the kernel manually.

Sorry, my English is not so perfect because I´m from Germany :oops:

gpeacock · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:10 am Post subject:

SOLVED: I had some bad sectors on the CDROM. I burned a new CD and copied over the distfiles and VOILA! everything was there. Back underway.