[SOLVED] Install Gentoo - Can't eject cd

[tody4me]

I'm using the universal install disk and i have a package disk also. I only have a modem dial-up connection, which hasn't gotten configured yet. I am trying to follow the install guide, but I can't use emerge without being online. I think the packages are on the supplemental package cd that I downloaded from the networked computer, and I need to take out the universal install cd and put the in the package cd, but I can't unmount the universal cd. I was wondering if someone here may have had this issue or would have somewhere that I could look to get the emerge binary to work without being online. I know that I have to export the variable PKGDIR=xxxx but it doesn't seem to work alone. I have bzunzipped the portage file and the stage3 file and copied the distfiles to the portage directory under distfiles as well.

TIA for any help that you could offer,
ToDy4Me

[je_fro]

hmm...booting with the docache kernel option sounds like what you want...

Options available to pass to your kernel of choice.
- acpi=on loads support for ACPI firmware
- ide=nodma force disabling of DMA for malfunctioning IDE devices
- doscsi scan for SCSI devices (breaks some ethernet cards)
- dopcmcia starts card services for PCMCIA CDROMs
- nofirewire disables firewire modules in initrd (for firewire CDROMs,etc)
- nokeymap disables keymap selection for non-US keyboard layouts
- docache cache the entire runtime portion of CD in RAM, allow you
to unmount /mnt/cdrom to mount another CDROM.
- nodetect causes hwsetup/kudzu and hotplug/coldplug not to run
- nousb disables USB modules load from initrd
- nodhcp DHCP does not automatically start if NIC detected
- nohotplug disables loading hotplug/coldplug services
- noapic disable APIC (try if having hardware problems NICs,SCSI,etc)
- hdx=stroke allows you to partition the whole hard disk even when your BIOS
can't handle large hard disks
- noload= disables loading a specific module(s), good for debugging

[tody4me]

ah ha. I'll try that and let you know. Thanks again je_fro.

[tody4me]

still doesn't allow me to unmount the cdrom drive. right about now I'm missing that eject command that I got used to in debian.... I'm still open to trying anything to get this to work. I was thinking about creating the ALL directory and not having anything in it or just copying all of the data at the root portage directory into it. Gen2 looks good, and I'm just dying to try it out with KDE...

Thanks again for any advice / help that you could give.
ToDy4Me

[je_fro]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml

[tody4me]

thanks again for all your help je_fro. Marking this as solved for now.