Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Thomas Beaudry <tmbeaudry@×××.com>
To: Jad@×××××××.info, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Just an idea
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:20:43
Message-Id: F61CDCa1rxqcnEBQHVs000056d2@hotmail.com
1 1. Download the distfiles directory contents from one of
2 the mirrors. Burn it to CD-ROM(s).
3
4 2. Install Gentoo using one of the ISO images as you would
5 normally.
6
7 3. Boot into your basic Gentoo installation.
8
9 4. Mount the CD you created in step one to the distfiles
10 directory.
11 (mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /usr/portage/distfiles)
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13 5. Continue following the installation instructions.
14
15 >although your principle is to download the source code from
16 >their source, i would just like to give a suggestion if u
17 >could create an iso with all the sources for people like me
18 >and many who dont have a connection on computers who want to
19 >install gentoo, or just download it once and distribute it to
20 >friends or so..
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