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On 5 Dec 2008, at 05:56, hiren joshi wrote: |
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> ... |
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> - no internet connection and |
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> - still want to compile the source for my specific |
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> architecture/processor to make my system speedy |
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> Are there CD/DVDs available that contains sources (burn to CD/DVD at a |
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> point of time) of all the gentoo packages? |
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> If yes, pls point me to a link about how can I install gentoo using |
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> these CD/DVDs. |
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> If not, any other method to achieve this? |
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Best thing to do is burn the stage CD and also a copy of the Portage |
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Daily Snapshot [1]. |
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Boot from it the stage 1 on your Internetless machine, and instead of |
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syncing unpack the snapshot into /usr/portage. When you get to the |
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`emerge world` part (or any `emerge` part) of the installation |
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instructions, substitute with `emerge -pvf > textfile.txt`. Then take |
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textfile.txt to a connected machine & use wget to fetch all the |
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packages listed in it. Copy those onto a CD & then into /usr/portage/ |
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distfiles/ |
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This is a bit time-consuming, especially as you probably won't |
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initially be aware of all the packages you need, but it's well- |
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documented and it's pretty much the only way to install packages under |
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Gentoo. |
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Compiling from source probably won't make any significant difference |
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to the speed of your machine, especially stage 1 vs stage 3 - stage 1 |
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will probably just make the installation more complex and result in |
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more sneakernet trips between the connected & disconnected machines. |
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Stroller. |
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[1] http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2 |
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