On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:50, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am very interested in using Gentoo "compile from source". However, > > I only have a dialup connection to the net. Reading the docs told me > > that I must install the stage 3 tarball to be able to use ppp. It also > > I'm pretty sure that the LiveCD has support for ppp. Also, if you have > another Linux distro already installed, you can connect to the internet > from there, and install from there.
I originally installed from "dial-up" (33.6k wireless internet) and had no problems. The livecd includes pppoe and so includes ppp as well. I originally installed from 1.4rc2 and there was no mention of dial-up at that time. I'm surprised that they've explicitly stated that it can't be used now. A warning though: the initial installation (that is getting a bootable system) will take you about 4 days combined downloading and compiling time judging from your CPU. X11 and your favourite WM will then take you a day or two more - or five for kde. Once you've got it all installed, though, it is worth it. It doesn't take too much to keep it up to date if you can afford to leave your computer on and connected overnight (every night ;-). > > says that using the stage 3 tarball requires a 686 processor. I am > > running an AMD K6-2 475 Mhz. Does this chip qualify as 686? > > Nope. It is a few instructions short of a 686. hehe, one can short of a six-pack? Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
