On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Daniel wrote: > I've got the kernel installed and it works fine with > ppp built into the kernel...but how does a RH user > get online to get the bloody packages to install...:)
> p.s. I'm being forced to use WinXP to write this from > my other machine... Get the source packages with the WinXP box and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles on the gentoo box. You can find out what source packages you need by reading the ebuild scripts or with emerge, for example, ppp: ...... # emerge -f ppp Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge net-dialup/ppp-2.4.1-r8 to / >>> Downloading >http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ppp-2.4.1-pppoe4.tgz --14:26:04-- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ppp-2.4.1-pppoe4.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/ppp-2.4.1-pppoe4.tgz' Resolving www.ibiblio.org... ...... So you would dl that file and put it /usr/portage/distfiles on the gentoo box. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
