Hey, all. I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation.
At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all manually, while sitting behind a router. Here, it seemed like I needed "dhcpcd" to make my connections, either directy via the cable modem or by 'internet connection sharing' with the XP that sits here. So, here I was, Gentoo box on a network, but dhcpcd not installed so no internet connection. My question is, what would be the 'gentoo' way to fix this problem? I wound up d/l and burning the universal install CD, unpacking the portage and distfiles to /opt/tempport and editing make.conf to use this new folder for portage. That's a lot of bandwidth and media for a very small file needed, no? After I emerged dhcpcd and got connected, I undid the edits. Emerge -uDv system, world, and all seems good. But isn't there a way to tell emerge, "hey, I just d/l this file. Install it from here..." Like, giving the tarball located on a floppy or something? -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? | |ichael | |iggins \^ / michael[dot]higgins[at]snet[dot]net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
