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On Wednesday 10 April 2002 17:27, Carter, Raymond D. wrote: |
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> I do not have broadband access to the machine where I would like to install |
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> GENTOO, although I do have access elsewhere. Is it reasonable to attemp to |
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> download packages I would be interested in and put them on CD's to use on |
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> the subject machine? |
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No problem with that. Just download them somewhere else and copy them over to |
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the machine into the "/usr/portage/distfiles" directory. You could even use |
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"emerge --buildpkg" on another machine to build binary packages for another |
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machine. Stick them into "/usr/portage/packages/All" and use --usepkg on |
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emerging. (Dunno if thats the syntax with new portage I'm still on rc6 but as |
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you have unix experience you should be able to figure that out :)) |
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Alex |
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