STUCK @ NETWORKING & SECURITY [ifconfig]

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

DOCUMENTING MY MINIMAL GENTOO INSTALLATION
MY SYSTEM
=================================================================================
* Dell inspiron3521, Intel, 64bit, Windows 8
* I'm using a virtual (VM Player, will use my VirtualBox soon)
* HUAWEI HSPA USB Modem
=================================================================================

OK, I did my installation and I'm at Networking & Security.
I had my USB Modem connected to my VM (I was hoping that would auto config my network...).
In my shell I used:
livecd ~ # /var/run/dhcpclient.pid
-su: /var/run/dhcpclient.pid: No such file or directory
Then I used this command:
livecd ~ # ifconfig
eno16777736: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.111.111.111 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.111.111.111
. . .
. . . *I change my IP addresses

lo: flags=73<UP LOOPBACK, RUNNING> mtu 65545
. . .
. . .
. . .
livecd ~ #

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From the Gentoo Linux Documentation
The interface name on your system can be quite different from eth0.
Recent installation media might show regular network interfaces names like eno0, ens1 or enp5s0. Just seek the interface in the ifconfig output that has an IP address related to your local network.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

So I guess I'm doing well... But I was trying 'eth0', 'wlan0'.... (I'll try anything!).

I'll CHECK IN later to update or get assistance.

xaviermiller · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:37 am Post subject:

ifconfig tells it's eno16777736
_________________
Kind regards,
Xavier Miller

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

xaviermiller · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:19 am Post subject:

yes.

But if you do dhcp, you don't need to know the interface names.
_________________
Kind regards,
Xavier Miller

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

CONFIGURE SOME PROXIES
From the Gentoo Linux Documentation
(If the proxy filters HTTP traffic)
livecd ~ # export http_proxy="http://proxy.gentoo.org:8080"
(If the proxy filters FTP traffic)
livecd ~ # export ftp_proxy="ftp://proxy.gentoo.org:8080"
(If the proxy filters RSYNC traffic)
livecd ~ # export RSYNC_PROXY="proxy.gentoo.org:8080" (I don't know what RSYNC is so I didn't use it)

TESTING THIS (the network)
livecd ~ # ping -c 3 www.gentoo.org
PING www-bytmark-v4v6.gentoo.org (89.16.167.134) 56(84) bytes of data
64 bytes from www.gentoo.org (89.16.167.134) icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=494 ms
. . .
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 432.571/461.470/489.126.111 ms (I left out some parts here)

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

{I hope someone follows my STEPS and feel GENTOO-empowered!
My main reason for listing my 'progress' is to get HELP as I install my Gentoo.}

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

QUESTION

I took a break so I paused my VM Player. But I noticed this alert:
information: You may need to update /etc/fstab
before I logged out. Even just now after I created my partitions.
(Which went well on my first minimal installation, Thanx for helping guys.)

So how can I update /etc/fstab?

QUESTION
I once tried partitioning my Fedora19 system via the terminal. I ended up deleting everything but my new partitions.
I think I had some 'boot options' available but I gave up trying and did a new Fedora19 installation instead.
I was wondering since I'm starting an installation from scratch....

Can't I delete my current Fedora19 system and use the skills I'm learning from the minimal installation tutorial to rebuild it?
Do a minimal Fedora19?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:32 pm Post subject:

gentoolinja,

/etc/fstab is a text file.
The handbook tells how to update it without telling what with.

Its the place where you describe which partition is mounted (or mountable) where.
The file is used by the init system to assemble your filesystem tree.

The 'what' varies from install to install.
_________________
Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

QUESTION
I ping -ed a few websites. Something seems to be working, but can I download or update anything on
my minimal installation, yet? Since I'm able to ping... Should I do any further network configs?

===============================================================================
My next step is Security configs

gentoolinja · n00b Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 13

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:22 pm Post subject:

gentoolinja,

If you can ping by name and you are booted into your own install, you can use emerge too.