Matt Harrison schrieb: > I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and > failed to find a succinct source of information. > > I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very > basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the > current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the > wired or wireless network devices so I'm unable to grab the stage3 and > portage tarballs. > > I was going to put them on a CD then work on the network stuff later > with a more recent kernel, then I realised that the SSDs in use won't > really like compilations being done (apart from it being achingly slow > on this processor). > > So what are my options? Ideally I want to have the network going so I > can compile the packages on my desktop, then have them installed over > the network. > > I've read several wiki articles etc which talk about patching older > kernels, or that the 2.6.28-* series having support for the network, but > both of those methods would involve me making my own bootable media, > something I've done before and remember it took me a fair amount of work. > > Any advice from you guys would be great, as I'm about to just stick XP > on it ;) > > ~Matt >
How about a good old sneakernet? [1] Grab a memory stick and use it to transfer data between your eee and a decent machine. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net
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