Hi, On 6/24/05, K. Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have downloaded the Gentoo Install CD and the Program CD (BSNL DataOne > is unlimited till June:) > Now, the base system is installed and working, though I missed the point > that Gentoo needs boot to be on a separate partition than the root. So, > while booting, it gets confused and I have to specify the boot location. > > The Gentoo install instruction says the installation can be from the CDs > as well from net. But the instruction they have given for installation > from CD is 'emerge', which unfortunately looks for the net. It looks in /usr/portage/distfiles/ for the source, if absent try to grab it from the net. This also happens if your ebuild in the portage tree points to a new source file which is absent in the distfile directory.
>So, > ultimately I was forced to install the base system off the net, even > though I had the CD. > > How do I tell Gentoo to look at the CD and not the net ? The tarballs in the cd needs to be extracted to the hard disk. Unpack the stage tarballs from the cd to the distfile directory(/usr/portage/distfiles). emerge will pick it up from there. Make sure your portage snapsot and stage tarballs are synchronized. DISTDIR variable in make.conf controls the location of the distfile directory. -siddhartha > > -- K.Ghosh > 093 910 58 749 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU/Linux user No.301508 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
