APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR 80 CHAR LINES IN WEB MAIL (will get a mail client for this soon, honest)
> Has anybody on the list installed/used this distro? If so wouldn't mind a bit
>  Burnt the ISO's from the latest Linux Format magazine. Took a couple of
> attempts to install but got there. My problem - I have a standard dial-up
> modem and the installation gives you the network card setup so internet
> download is out of the question, but, I installed the Stage3 tarball which
> puts the .tgz files on your harddrive.
>  So methinks, I have the software there and all I need to do is install so as
> 1) get the necessary programmes to connect to the net and 2) install any
>  What actually happens is that if, for example, I attempt to install the KDE
> package, the system goes looking for any dependencies on the net despite the
> fact that the dependencies reside on my hard drive. Obviously I can't install
>  Have checked all docs on the web page and nothing deals with a standard
> dial-up modem or how to tell the package manager to look for the dependencies
Yup I'm running it on my k6 233 laptop. It's tres sweet.
I would recommend getting wvdial, opening a virtual terminal dialing the internet and then emerging the packages you need.
I did my install over my home lan and the lan in work (which has DSL - running Linux as firewall/router/mailserver of course).
But yes you will need at least wvdial to make this puppy happen me thinks.
In fact it looks as if the base install comes with wvdial for just this kind of instal.
But I just found this on the Gentoo site for you.
If it is not too obvious, these are the steps I took.
* create mount point for other distribution
And yes I do give better technical support to people who use

Hi,
This has been hashed over a few times on various lists, now I finally got
around to doing something about it... You can now add
"rpm http://koti.welho.com/pmatilai/ redhat/8.0 task" to your sources.list
and after apt-get update you can find out what's available with
'apt-cache search ^task-'
These are generated directly from comps.xml of RH8.0 so they contain
exactly the same packages as you'll get by choosing the various categories
at install time. I didn't bother including SRPMS for these as they are
rather uninteresting, if you want you can re-generate the .specs by
running http://koti.welho.com/pmatilai/comps2task/comps2task.py.
BTW the repository only contains the task-packages, you'll need an
apt-enabled mirror of RH8.0 in your sources.list to actually do anything
with it.
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- Panu -
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