[resolved] Kernel - Networkless Install Advice !!

Fizzer · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 29

Hello all

New to Forum and New Linux period so bear with me (I hear groans!!)...

I am starting to study for Linux exams (Linux+ then LPI) and decided to make things a bit more interesting than just reading and doing book examples. I've decided to build a Gentoo based system with mythTV..

Now most of the past 2 day's I've been building or trying to build it at work. I can't have ANY kind of internet connection for downloading AT ALL..

I am using install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso and have so far goto CHROOTING to the base system. I am using (I assume!!) the default Compile and USE settings in /etc/make.conf.... I have not changed anything there!!

At the point where I emerge the Kernel.. Can I do this with no Internet at all??

emerge gentoo-sources - Hits me with no internet connection trying to download from various sites..

Can I use the Kernel in /distfiles on the Instalation CD (linux-2.6.11.2.tar.bz2)??? If so how.. can I tar this to a directory in say usrs and point the symlink to this or even just extract to /usr/src/linux ?? I am at home at the mo' and I will be trying these when I get back to work tonight (nightshift in a NOC, Yes!! I am a NOCMonkey but at least I am trying to learn something about the systems I am monitoring)..

ALSO I can't seem to mount the cd-rom (a bit of a problem if I'm installing fully from CD) after chrooting mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
no devices found.. Am I missing something very basic here ??

I know this is basic stuff and I have been reading through numerous sources and posts BUT all seem to point to configuring/installing the Kernel sources with a network connection. Can I do it without one??? <<-- Just answer that one and I will be happy and carry on trawling the documentation.

masteroftheuniverse · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 259

Copy the bz2 to your /usr/portage/distfiles and just emerge gentoo-sources. if the file is in that folder, it doesn't go try and download it. for other packages you have the option of using the packages disk with binaries already built, just export PKGDIR to whatever directory you put them in and emerge with the --usepkg flag.
hope that helps.

Nard` · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 250

Fizzer · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 29

Thanks!!

Will try tonight...

Well posted made a coffee came back.. 2 answers.. It's better than calling a support desk.. :lol:

Thanks again

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject:

Fizzer,

Welcome to Gentoo - Even the vets were noobs once.
Your distfiles path in /etc/make.conf should point to /mnt/cdrom/distfiles then portage will look in there for any source files it wants, not just the kerenl. You can just untar it to /usr/src but don't. That will lose you any patches and you will have to solve the problem properly to install other things.

You need to mount the CD before you chroot. It must be mounted on /mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom, so it appears on /mnt/cdrom inside the chroot. Or you can copy the content of /distfiles to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles, which is the defualt location for the downloaded sources (looking from outside the chroot)

Use two VTs, one instade the other outside the chroot. Do this by setting the password when you boot the liveCD. (The passwd command). Ctrl-Alt-Fn n=2..5 will get you a new VT. Log in as user root using your newly set password. Ctrl-Alt-F1 takes you back to VT1, where you strated.
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