Hi folks. i recently installed gentoo earlier today from the 2005.0 cd (universal cd). yes, i am a noob please don't hold it against me. at the moment i cannot figure out how to get a desktop environment installed. can anyone tell me how to install (emerge) from the cd? please be specific as i am quite new to this. thank you in advance.

also, i will have to install ndiswrapper before i can have an internet connection so i suppose this limits my options. in order to install using software from the net, i will have to save it using another maching onto an external harddrive (although, i havent figured out how to mount it since i can't figure out how to set it up in the fstab. any help would be appreciated.

Is it not in the manual? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.x...tall#doc_chap2
It should be there somewhere. Sorry, won't look thru it myself .

Here is the package cd;
http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2005.0/packagecd/
Why can't you use an ethernet card?

Some poeple are on networks with other people(like me) and those other people complain about their internet being slow. Now here is a question, how can you download the packages with a bandwidth limit, e.g.: let's say my bandwidth is 25KB per sec. but I want to limit it to 15KB/s, how would I do that?

i have yet to see anything on installing a wm in their documentation. i understand that it has to be there somewhere. it wasn't in the portion of the handbook that i followed in order to accomplish the install.

i have only a wireless card on that particular laptop. the onboard nic burned out a long time ago and i can't locate my pcmcia dongle either. i will look at the packages cd and see if there is something there i can use. before i rebooted after the initial installation i typed "emerge enlightenment" and that ran for three hours but no dice.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop
The problem is you need to use emerge ...

ok. this may seem silly but... if i burn the packages cd and then mount it, will i still use emerge or simply tar it?