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Anthony de Almeida Lopes wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> My question: Is there any possible way to set up my |
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> installation to download from a 56k PPP connection? I |
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> realize this would take several days but I'm up for |
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> it. |
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If you install from an existing linux installation, you can just chroot |
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into your fledgling gentoo environment and let the old distro handle the |
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ppp connection. You can also pre-download all the sources that you need |
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(emerge -p is your friend, and look at the bootstrap script to see what |
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you need) and make them available in /usr/portage/distfiles. You can |
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also bypass all this and start from a stage 3 tarball (never having done |
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this, I don't know if ppp is part of it, or if you would have to |
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download the sources for it in advance). I bootstrapped 1.2 in this way |
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from a stage1 over a modem. |
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> My secondary question is if I do get this to work and |
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> let's say I get disconnected, will I have to start all |
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> over? |
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You should just have to build what is unbuilt - but I don't know how |
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smart the bootstrap script is in regards to this. |
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> WETHER OR NOT THIS IS POSSIBLE is there a way to |
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> download the Ports collection onto a CDROM, per say |
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> with an ISO? |
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Portage, including all the distfiles, is either 10GB or 17GB of data - |
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I'm not sure which, but it's a lot. You can, however, download a daily |
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snapshot of the portage tree (about 7mb) from: |
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http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/ |
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hth, |
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tom |
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