michael higgins wrote: > 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? > > Do 'emerge -vfp dhcpcd', it will tell you which file to download.
Download it elsewhere, bring it on a floppy/cd/write down 1s and 0s, and copy that file over to /usr/portage/distfiles. Done. People over a dial-up connection do this regularly for large files... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled ] [Location ] :: [Israel ] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5 ] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred
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