three place to keep in mind, they will be your best friend when in doubt
www.gentoo.org/doc forums.gentoo.org gentoo-wiki.com These are a good first stop :D Anyway, happy gentooing >D On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Net Warrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I could set up my ethernet manually :), just wondering if the > setup-eth0 utils was a part of a packages I missed to install, cuz after > loging in to the new installed system could not find it, but, is not matter > of death and life :) > > Gentoo seems to be ( my humble opinion withing my first 24 usage hours ) a > very robust system, I come from a freebsd land, and so, in my need to use a > linux distro ( tried ubuntu, a mess ) gentoo has all I have in freebsd, the > portage is what I like most, the way to be up to date with ports ans system, > emerge does a good job, like portsnap/pkg_tools does for freebsd. > > The only think I found, how can I say, weird, is the installation, the need > to do all the stuff by hand, just a basic install like bsd does ( 100 MB ) > and then install the rest fro the network, would be nice, I'm too lazy to > do paritioning/swap/choot :) > > I'll needto go deeper with the FLAGS features, still do not understand some > things, I have things by default by the moment, eventhough it's a powerfull > feature, I know that I can screw it up the howle system. > > Anyway, I'm almost done, I'm still compiling my stuff, and I'm happy the way > it does things, great job. > > Thank you for your time and support. > > > 2008/4/23, Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > did you symlink net.lo to net.YOUR_ETH_DEVICE ? > > > > did you add said new symlink to the boot/default runtime? > > > > > > C- > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Net Warrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Yes, I did it manually as stated in the handbook, I'll take a look if I > can > > > copy net-setup from the install CD. > > > > > > Thank you very much. > > > > > > > > > 2008/4/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > "Net Warrior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > HI there guys. > > > > > I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , > > > trying to > > > > > use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I nneed to > > > install > > > > > in order to have this util? > > > > > It seems I missed something. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your time and support. > > > > > Greets, > > > > > > > > > > > > The net-setup tool is on the install cd. Not sure if its a separate > > > > installable utility in portage.. but an `eix' search of the portage > > > > database comes up empty. > > > > > > > > The way I do is establish a network running the install image cd or > > > > iso then transfer those settings to the actual install. > > > > > > > > But if you've already moved to the fresh install you should be able to > > > > setup the ethernet by hand with `ifconfig' and `route'. > > > > > > > > Then put those setting into /etc/conf.d/net > > > > /etc/conf.d/domainname > > > > /etc/resolv.conf > > > > > > > > For manual setup: > > > > (assuming eth0 is the device you are going to use) > > > > > > > > ifconfig eth0 my.ip.address (in numeric notation like 192.168.0.2) up > > > > route add default gw my.gateway.addr (in numeric notation) > > > > > > > > (if /etc/resolv.conf does not already contain a nameserver to use) > > > > > > > > echo "nameserver my.nameserver.address" > /etc/resolv.conf > > > > > > > > And finally, if all goes well.. complete the setup so that it starts > > > > on bootup with rc-update > > > > > > > > rc-update add net.eth0 default (to add it to the default run level) > > > > > > > > See if that gets you going... > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
