Installing without the net (at home)

gypso · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 15

Are there any possibility to fully install gentoo without net from HDD or CD

DanRok · Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 1:43 pm Post subject:

Sure, get the 100mb iso with the stage3 tarball ( http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/1.1a/gentoo-i686-1.1a.iso ) . Burn the image on a cd and boot from it.

The rest of the installation process: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html

gypso · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 15

svan9420 · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 51

I installed gentoo from home using the stage 1 iso on a dial up modem. But to do this I had to set my other linux box up as dial up gateway, that just dialed whenever an internet connection was needed. Granted, it was pain stakenly slow, but I was up and running with gentoo, xfree86 4.20 and enlightenment in a few days. Then I upgraded the dial up gateway to gentoo by just copying the files over. Now I am setup, and everything is working great.
Of course both boxes have AMD athlon processors, but it is still working awesome.
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gypso · n00b Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 15

Are there any plans to produce several CD's or DVD which will gentoo linux generate from?

Focx · Guest

Hi there,
U've got the same problem - no inet con available, amd k6/3 processor. I can however get the packages I need from somewhere else where I have internet connection. So I need a stage 1 install and the packages

What I need now is a list of all the packages I need to install gentoo with X and all the stuff, or a method to get DSL running with the stage 1 installation to download the rest of the stuff WITHOUT having a router

please help, a friend of mine has the same problem and we really want to use gentoo ^-^

davidpm · n00b Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 1

Borrow a spare computer
Bring it school or work or friends house with DSL/Cable
Follow these directions
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/mirroring.html
Bring your own personal rsync mirror home

You just have to figure out how to fake the location.
Perhaps a hosts entry or the actual ip in the config file.

What do you experts think?

lx · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 9:57 am Post subject:

If you can get access to a internet connection it maybe easier to boot from cd and unpack tar then use emerge rsync, (well do first part of install until bootstrap) and then use emerge --fetchonly , all sources are stored in /usr/portage/distfiles (be sure to download all package you desire (check the file bootstrap and get those packages manually with -f (baselayout/gettext/binutils/gcc/glibc). You can then do the rest of the building at home

btw there are 1.2 isos.
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DanRok · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 11:04 am Post subject:

lx · Posted: Thu May 30, 2002 11:20 am Post subject:

kibab · Guest

If you have another distro on the machine that has dialup access, you can do the entire thing from it without even grabbing any additional packages.

1) extract stage 1 tarball onto new "root" partition (for example, /dev/hda5)
2) connect to internet using regular distro
2) mount -t xfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/gentoo
3) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
4) mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
5) cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
6) chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
7) source /etc/profile
7) ... follow the regular instructions ...

I have just finished building stage 3 this way from a stage 1. Using this method, I didn't have to download wvdial, ppp, etc. to connect to the internet. Of course, many of the possibilities above will work as well.

--Kibab