Gentoo

[Cidadão Dorense]

Thanks a lot for the tips!

I'll start with the iso image. I think it is only
16MB.

Regards,
Cid.

 --- Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> escreveu: > On Fri,
> > Hi Collins.
> > 
> > Do you know if with a great deal of patience is it
> > possible to build a Gentoo system using dial-up
> > connections? I wouldn?t matter if it download only
> a
> > dozen of packages a day and compile those, but it
> > would need to be able to continue on the next day
> from
> > the point it stopped.
> > 
> 
> Yes.  After you get over the initial pain of
> downloading and burning the
> iso image to install your initial system (BTW, the
> image is smaller than
> most, since it only contains the bare essentials for
> creating a bootable
> system), it's easy to do that.
> 
> 1) perform "emerge rsync" ( this updates your
> portage tree with the
> current descriptors for packages(ebuilds).  Not a
> big download.
> 
> 2) setup a script that issues 'emerge --fetchonly
> dir/buildname'
> commands to run overnight while you catch some z's. 
> Put in all the
> package names you want to install next day.  Each
> package (...tar.gz)
> will be downloaded to the /usr/portage/distfiles
> directory.  When you
> issue 'emerge dir/buildname' the next day, portage
> will find the
> downloaded source and get to work right away.
> 
> If you need any help, let me know.
> 
> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
> Gentoo_rc6-15 2.4.17 - xfce + sylpheed + mozilla


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