[gentoo-dev] rc6 build and wvdial

[gentoo-dev] rc6 build and wvdial

[Kevin Gordon]

re wvdial with Build-ix86-1.0-rc6-r12.iso.
While proceeding through the instructions "Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6 'from
source' (build) CD Installation I included wvdial as follows:
#chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
#env-update
#source /etc/profile
(config network as per instructions if required)
(cp the following files from the gentoo-i686-excl-bin-1.0_rc5 CD)
#cd /
#tar -xvjpf /tmp/wget-1.7.tbz2
#tar -xvjpf /tmp/ppp-2.4.1-r1.tbz2
#tar -xvjpf /tmp/wvdial-1.41-r3.tbz2
#ldd /usr/bin/wvdial (cannot find libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3)
#tar -xvjpf /tmp/gcc-2.95.3-r1.tbz2 (to obtain above library)
#ln -s gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
(borrowed conf files from earlier linux system:
options,pap-secrets,host.conf,hostname,hosts,wgetrc,wvdial.conf,modules and
adjusted where necessary)
#mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
#chmod 600 /dev/ppp
#touch /var/log/ppp.log
#chmod g+w /etc/ppp
#chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
(ALT F2)
#wvdial
(ALT F1)
#emerge rsync
(continued with instructions)

I would appreciate any comments /improvements as I am a newie.

I would also like some help with:
I copied (cp -R) a whole root partition from a sda disk to a hda disk then
restructured the sda disk using fdisk then copied (cp -R) the partion back
to the sda disk. When I tried to reboot the system while the kernel was
being uncompressed, I got a message stating that the compression type of the
file had been changed. Any comments. Have I used the wrong method?

Many thanks,
Kevin Gordon,
New Zealand.