Mark Page  printfdAPOLOGIES 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 
> of help.
> 
>  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 
> other programmes I might need.
> 
>  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 
> anything.
> 
>  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 
> on the hard drive.
> 
>  Anybody able to help me here?
> 
>  Thanks in anticipation.
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.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4691&highlight=modemSpecificallyquote:
If it is not too obvious, these are the steps I took.
    * Boot off the install CD
    * modprobe serial
    * setserial (if needed)
    * create mount point for other distribution
    * mount other distribution
    * chroot'd to other distribution
    * su - to regular user
    * ran wvdial
    * switch consoles and install as normal
And yes I do give better technical support to people who use
distros I like.I'm only laughing on the outside 
My smile is just skin deep 
If you could see inside I'm really crying 
You might join me for a weep.
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