Re: [LUG] Gentoo installing woes

[Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Benjamin Matthew A'Lee wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 06:40:53PM +0000, Ben Goodger wrote:
|
|>Hi,
|>
|>Installing Gentoo using a router, I have got to the stage where I can
|>bootstrap the system but I cannot then emerge the system, as portage
|>is unable to connect to any download servers (although it is able to
|>resolve their IP addresses.) I need to have my MTU set to 1400 in
|>order to use the Internet properly on all operating systems, and I can
|>set it to 1400 with a 'ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400' before chrooting into
|>the bootstrapped environment, but I don't know if it retains this
|>setting once chrooted, and I can't set it again because ifconfig is a
|>system component.
|>
|>Anyone got any ideas of how to get Gentoo to connect?
|>

yes the MTU does get taken across...

check the default route setting, 'route' command (prior to chrooting).

that would be my first port of call...

Neil
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